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Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly
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Harry Putnam |
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Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly |
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Sun, 20 Jun 2004 07:20:50 -0500 |
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Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:00:28AM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
>> --- Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I don't have any opinion on change #3, but changes #1 and #2 don't appear
>> > to
>> > be related to netbooting (perhaps they refer to stage2/{boot.c,shared.h})
>>
>> Surely, the patch has code independent of netbooting, but I mean that it is
>> not
>> enough to boot OpenBSD from a disk.
>>
>> If you know more or less about the boot process of OpenBSD, take a look at
>> the
>> function "openbsd_boot" in the patch. It is obvious that it doesn't support
>> booting from a disk, as bootdev is just ignored.
>
> All right.. Too bad I don't have OpenBSD at hand to test it anyway.
Has anything further happened on this?... Its dated Sept 9 2003.
I'm having trouble even creating a boot floppy for openbsd with
current cvs sources (detailed in another post
Subject: trouble using cvs grub as bootloader)
Are there patches around that would help?
- Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly,
Harry Putnam <=