On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Klaus Heinz wrote:

> [ Klaus Heinz asks about how to install $DESTDIR/boot.amiga with the mechanisms
>   bsd.*.mk provides ]
> 
> Luke Mewburn wrote:
> 
> > Todd Vierling wrote:
> >   | Most platforms do this copy as part of "installboot", by passing *two*
> >   | arguments to installboot (first stage short bootblock and second stage
> >   | boot
> >   | program file), not during rolling up of the base sets.  (Part of the
> >   | reason
> >   | for this is so that doing a build with DESTDIR=/ won't hose bootability if
> >   | there's bootblock problems unless "installboot" is explicitly run.)

  As far as I could tell, none of the installboot processes I looked at
did this (alpha, pmax, vax).

> > I'm curious to as why the base set on the amiga provides /boot;
> > I don't think any other port does that.  "Whatever" :-)
> 
> Ah, this is a question I did not think about. As far as I know Michael Hitch
> has worked at the new boot blocks for NetBSD/Amiga and has probably added
> it to the set list for base.tgz.

  The vax and pmax ports did this, so that's the approach I took.  The
alpha and pmax sysinst programs do the copy as part of the bootblock
install process [so the pmax has /boot.pmax in the base.tgz set as well as
copying it when updating bootblocks].  The amiga install/upgrade process
could to this easily, I think.

> Where else should the second stage bootloader come from if not provided by
> the base set or installed by installboot, as Todd proposed?

  See above.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
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