Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 22:09:42 +0300 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> To: Gavin Jones <gavinj@ukgateway.net> Cc: Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>, sparc@freebsd.org Subject: RE: sparc64 bootable CD Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.10.10208202204580.76534-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> In-Reply-To: <PDEAKAADENHKGKPIGDGFOEMBCCAA.gavinj@ukgateway.net>
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Well I made a iso image of openbsd and its booting correctly. I can send you perhaps? If you want? If you can arrange an ftp account or something? Also the FreeBSD iso image is working fine. I have had a lot of trouble though. I made a document describing the installation of FreeBSD to sparc64 ultra10. I will soon start to write about installation of OpenBSD as it seems. After I make some tests with FreeBSD before installing OpenBSD over. I am determined to make NetBSD to boot from CD too =) Evren On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Gavin Jones wrote: > If you follow the link you get to the following : > > <CUT> > NetBSD/sparc64 > > Currently there is no support for booting NetBSD/sparc64 from CD. It is on > the sparc64 TODO list however and the hardware certainly will support this. > </CUT> > > The only way that I have managed to install *BSD is using netboot and > installed OpenBSD, which I have never been able to do again :o) > > it just dies with an "Unknown Error 13" which I think is coming from the NFS > side of things on the nfs server but never managed to fix it :o( > > Gavin J > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Thomas Moestl > Sent: 20 August 2002 15:09 > To: Evren Yurtesen > Cc: sparc@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: sparc64 bootable CD > > > 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 <tmoestl@gmx.net> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ > <tmm@FreeBSD.org> 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 > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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