From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Aug 20 7: 8:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2437537B400 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:08:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FC7B43E65 for ; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 07:08:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tmoestl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 6994 invoked by uid 0); 20 Aug 2002 14:08:14 -0000 Received: from p5086f012.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO forge.local) (80.134.240.18) by mail.gmx.net (mp018-rz3) with SMTP; 20 Aug 2002 14:08:14 -0000 Received: from tmm by forge.local with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 17h9gy-0000u6-00; Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:09:08 +0200 Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 16:09:08 +0200 From: Thomas Moestl To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sparc64 bootable CD Message-ID: <20020820140908.GB1130@crow.dom2ip.de> Mail-Followup-To: Evren Yurtesen , sparc@freebsd.org References: <20020820130526.GA1130@crow.dom2ip.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 2002/08/20 at 16:31:49 +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > Its more complicated than I thought. > It is pretty straightforward for sparc in NetBSD > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html#sparcimage > I was actually trying to make bootable images for sparc64 in brothers of > FreeBSD =) The NetBSD and OpenBSD and I thought since there is a working > sparc64 image in FreeBSD (I already installed it and made a installation > document) I thought the FreeBSD people would know the thing I am doing > wrong. > I downloaded the miniroot.fs and made a iso with mkisofs with > NetBSD and OpenBSD files and then I tried to do > mksunbootcd output.sio miniroot.fs miniroot.fs miniroot.fs > but well something went wrong. Humm, what exactly? > Any suggestions? NetBSD offers bootable images now (http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc64/faq.html#cdrominstall), and OpenBSD's code is in general more similar to NetBSD's, so it would probably be helpful to ask on the NetBSD lists. AFAIK The mksunbootcd tool will just put a root fs image into the correct slice (and the correct slice for sparc64 differs form the sparc one, so you will at least need to append miniroot.fs three other times), and it depends quite a lot on the kernel handling whether such an embedded slice on a device with a non-disk block size can even be mounted correctly (IIRC NetBSD could not do this, so they probably have chosen another method now). - thomas -- Thomas Moestl http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ PGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message