Subject: bootable amd64 installation CD
To: None <port-amd64@netbsd.org>
From: Ray Phillips <r.phillips@jkmrc.com>
List: port-amd64
Date: 07/09/2007 18:13:58
What's the procedure now for making a bootable CD containing the
installation files for NetBSD/amd64?
I've just built a -current release (from sources CVS updated on 21
June) and found amd64 doesn't have an equivalent file to i386's
installation/floppy/boot-big.fs so I can't follow the steps in this
URL:
http://netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html#i386image
I found that build.sh has an iso-image option which solves my
immediate problem, but what if I want to make a bootable CD with
non-standard stuff on it?
What is the native boot format Manuel mentions in:
http://www.netbsd.org/changes/changes-5.0.html
How does it compare to El Torito? Is the difference just that it's
able to ignore the 2.88 MB floppy emulation limit?
Ray