Re: RFC: boot images config. file format

[Masao Uebayashi <uebayasi%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:07 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 02:01:12AM +0900, Masao Uebayashi wrote:
>> Is it what's written in distrib/sgimips/cdroms/installcd/Makefile?
>
> Yes.
>
>> (Just curious; is the small ffs partition mounted somewhere (written
>> in the /etc/fstab)?)
>
> Not realy - it is only accessed by firmware and the bootloader (via libsa).

OK, I've found the sunbootcd is very special.

I think this could be naturally handled by mounting the ffs partition
at a pseudo mount point (e.g. /sunbootcd).  Then it could be written
as:

filesystem /sunbootcd list ... type ffs
partition e sunlabel e filesystem /sunbootcd
:

Masao