Re: CD-ROM Booting

Michael Shalayeff <[email protected]> Mon, 4 Apr 2005 12:48:20 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.hppa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Mike Nicewonger:
> Was I imagining that there was now support for booting from CD-ROM? Or 
> was I hallucinating? I need to replace an aging Sun/OBSD name server 
> and was thinking this B132L+ I have would fill that job nicely.

you can do that.
there is no snapshot yet w/ it though i'm afraid.

however you can take the drive into another box and
dd if=lif37.fs of=/dev/rsd1c bs=64k
assuming sd1 is the drive.
and then boot from it. should work.

cu
-- 
    paranoic mickey       (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)