Sorry for a long silence. I was away from my NetBSD partition for last week.

David Young wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:38:57PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 02:27:12PM +0900, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > > > I think it is a reasonable compromise for all of our needs, if the
> > > > keypress is configurable with, say, an installboot(8) option.
> > > 
> > > It's not possible to install cdboot to CD-ROM by using installboot
> > > since CD-ROM is read-only media.
> > 
> > One would installboot to the CD-ROM image before recording the CD-ROM.
> > I run installboot(8) on Compactflash images all of the time.
> > 
> > ***
> > 
> > I just tried to boot an ISO9660 filesystem created by makefs like so:
> > 
> > % $TOOL_MAKEFS -x -F $DESTDIR/metalog.image -N $INSTDIR/etc -t cd9660 \
> >     -o "rockridge,bootimage=i386;$DESTDIR/usr/mdec/cdboot,no-emul-boot"\
> >     $ISO $INSTDIR
> > 
> > The CD-ROM would boot neither qemu nor a laptop.  On the laptop, it
> > complained that it could not find /boot (/boot is in there!).  On qemu,
> > I do not see any progress after cdboot displays its banner.  If you will
> > contact me privately, I will provide you with the ISO image.
> 
> I think I have figured it out.  There is a standards-compliance bug in
> makefs, in that it omits trailing periods.  So /boot is recorded as BOOT;1
> instead of BOOT.;1, as cdboot expects.  I believe I know how to fix that.

Sounds good. Was it checked in?

Jun-Young