Re: about Pegasos1 (april fix 2) support
nello martuscielli <[email protected]> Tue, 5 Apr 2011 17:30:58 +0200
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On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Frank Wille <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Apr 2011 14:42:01 +0200 > nello martuscielli <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Peg1 only manage amiga or msdos partition table, i've msdos. > > Then I misunderstood you. I thought you meant amiga partition table in > your last mail. > > >> Here some info about the disk booting from linux: >> [...] > > Ok, I see the problem. You have MBR partitions and ofwboot must find > a NetBSD partition among them to read a disklabel. It cannot work. > > I will see if it makes sense to create a fake disklabel out of FAT > partitions, when there is no NetBSD disklabel found. Maybe that is > also a useful enhancement of ofwboot for others. > > Otherwise the only option for the Pegasos1 would be CD-booting. > it seems a nice step forward! It starts to load netbsd. well, now booting from CD with gunzipped files: http://oi51.tinypic.com/maxa8m.jpg I'll give another try with a different new media in the next days even i burned twice and i got tha same error at 3141982 cheers, Nello