Re: Missing boot menu on i386 installation CD

[Hubert Feyrer <hubert%feyrer.de@localhost>]

On Wed, 1 Feb 2012, Evgeniy Ivanov wrote:
> I do:
> ./build.sh -O /usr/obj/ -R /usr/releasedir/ release
> ./build.sh -u -O /usr/obj/ -R /usr/releasedir/ iso-image
>
> When I boot from CD there is no boot menu from boot.cfg, but instead
> the default one with fallback to cd0a:netbsd*.
> Is it a known issue? I noticed that boot.cfg is opened and read, but
> either it considered as empty or read damaged. Before more debugging I
> decided to check here.
> Though booting works fine, so it reads from iso9660 normally...

Are you in a position to modify the boot.cfg file that is actually put on 
the CD? If so, try adding a few dummy comments and then rebuild, and then 
see if the file is read.

I have a strange suspicion that there's some weird size issue there, I ran 
into this for g4u. There, my boot.cfg looks like this:

        % cat boot.cfg.in
        banner=Welcome to g4u @@G4UVERSION@@
        
banner================================================================================
        banner=
        banner=ACPI should work on all modern and legacy hardware, however if 
you
        have
        banner=problems, please try disabling it.
        menu=Start g4u:load /miniroot.kmod;boot netbsd
        menu=Start g4u (no ACPI):load /miniroot.kmod;boot netbsd -2
        menu=Start g4u (no ACPI, no SMP):load /miniroot.kmod;boot netbsd -12
        menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt
        timeout=5
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!
        # This space intentionally left blank - leave to appease bootloader!


 - Hubert