Re: Prep bootloader

Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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