Re: Installing 2.0.2 onto IBM 7248-100
Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep |
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On Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:52:41 -0700 Andy Ruhl <[email protected]> wrote: > Somehow when I originally did fdisk and disklabel, my "a" partition > started from the front of the disk which is no good. I guess you need > to pay special attention on these when you do your fdisk and disklabel > partitioning? It all seems kind of hokey the way it works compared to > other ports, but it's working so I can't complain too much. port-prep has not that much users so not that much bugreports and bugfixes get back... Most users stumble over the first installation but when they finaly got a running system the system keeps running and running... > The obvious question is, can we get a bootloader which understands how > to go to the proper root disk instead of putting a kernel at the front > of the disk and hacking around with the fdisk partitions every time we > want a new kernel? That would be really nice... I suspect the bigest problem with this is to find someone with the time and motivation to do this. Technically this should be no real problem. -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/