Re: port-i386/44265: Creation of boot image for i386

[Jeff Rizzo <riz%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/44265; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jeff Rizzo <riz%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/44265: Creation of boot image for i386
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:26:57 -0800

 On 12/22/10 4:00 PM, darrenandrewgould%gmail.com@localhost wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I'm one of those users that like to build my own iso rather than use the 
 > pre-built one offered. In doing so, I realized that the "-no-emul-boot" is 
 > needed to create the bootable image.  Otherwise, the mkisofs will render a: 
 > "Size of boot image is 7200 sectors -->  Error - boot image is not the an 
 > allowable size" error.
 >
 > The current documentation at:
 > http://netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html#i386image
 > does not reflect that requirement, so I thought I'd throw you a "heads-up" 
 > to let you know.
 
 I assume the instructions as posted merely create a boot image that does 
 not have installation sets, and so you install via the network?
 
 I wonder if these instructions should be supplanted with information 
 about the fact that bootable .iso images are created by default in a 
 release build these days, and are by default put in 
 i386/installation/cdrom .  For example, from the latest autobuilds:
 
 
http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201012230600Z/i386/installation/cdrom/boot.iso
 
 ... these images are actually build with makefs, which is part of NetBSD 
 these days.
 
 Thanks for the report - can you check if these images work for you and 
 do what you want?
 
 +j