Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 19:49:27 +0100 From: "Gavin Jones" <gavinj@ukgateway.net> To: "Thomas Moestl" <tmoestl@gmx.net>, "Evren Yurtesen" <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> Cc: <sparc@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: sparc64 bootable CD Message-ID: <PDEAKAADENHKGKPIGDGFOEMBCCAA.gavinj@ukgateway.net> In-Reply-To: <20020820140908.GB1130@crow.dom2ip.de>
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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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