Re: Prep bootloader
Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep |
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On Tue, 07 Mar 2006 23:04:12 -0700 (MST) Tim Rightnour <[email protected]> wrote: > We can essentially ship a script which will generate a > bootimage from /netbsd, and write it out to the root drive. What about a bootloader that reads /netbsd out of the root file system? This would avoid the partition table fsck entirely. > if we fix the booted-device stuff so the machine knows where it was > booted from Oh, yes, that would be great. How does the firmware tell the kernel about the boot device? IIRC I didn't find that in the residual data. -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/