Re: NetBSD/ofppc boots multiuser on Pegasos

Jorge Acereda MaciĆ” <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 03:07:26 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Simon Burge wrote:

> No ideas offhand.  That's a page size which may or may not mean
> anything.
> 
> I wonder what happens if you do something like:
> 
> 	dd if=/netbsd of=/tmp/foo bs=4k count=1 seek=1
> 
> do you zeros or real data at 0x1000 in /tmp/foo ?  Still, I'm not
> sure what that proves either if it works or not...
> 

Interesting. I got two identical chunks at 0x0000 and 0x1000 which are 
in fact the data at 0x0000 in /netbsd.

Want to hear something really annoying? if I use dd if=/netbsd 
of=/tmp/foo instead of cp, I get an exact replica.