Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2002 15:23:52 -0800 (PST) From: Thomas Moestl <tmm@FreeBSD.org> To: Perforce Change Reviews <perforce@freebsd.org> Subject: PERFORCE change 8837 for review Message-ID: <200204012323.g31NNqY83534@freefall.freebsd.org>
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http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/p4db/chv.cgi?CH=8837 Change 8837 by tmm@tmm_sparc64 on 2002/04/01 15:23:30 Fix a comment. Affected files ... ... //depot/projects/sparc64/sys/boot/sparc64/loader/main.c#21 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/projects/sparc64/sys/boot/sparc64/loader/main.c#21 (text+ko) ==== @@ -407,14 +407,15 @@ case DEVT_DISK: bootdev.d_dev = &ofwdisk; /* - * When booting from a cdrom, a disk label is placed before the - * cd9660 data, with it being in the first slice, while the - * other slices contain pseudo disk labels with embedded boot - * blocks, which are prepended by UFS file systems. - * The firmware will set the boot path to the slice it boots - * from (f in the sun4u case), but we want the kernel to be - * loaded from the cd9660 fs ('a'), so the boot path needs to - * be changed. + * Sun compatible bootable CD-ROMs have a disk label placed + * before the cd9660 data, with the actual file system being + * in the first partition, while the other partitions contain + * pseudo disk labels with embedded boot blocks for different + * architectures, which may be followed by UFS file systems. + * The firmware will set the boot path to the partition it + * boots from ('f' in the sun4u case), but we want the kernel + * to be loaded from the cd9660 fs ('a'), so the boot path + * needs to be altered. */ if (strstr(bootpath, "cdrom") != NULL && bootpath[strlen(bootpath) - 2] == ':') { To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe p4-projects" in the body of the message
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