Subject: Re: Silly question...
To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
From: Todd Vierling <tv@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-arc
Date: 12/26/2000 16:24:17
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
: : NetBSD/arc has no CD-ROM bootloader as yet.
:
: Are you sure? NetBSd/arc is like OpenBSD/arc in that you just run the
: kernel as the boot loader... This can either be with the run a
: command option of your BIOS, or by setting up environment
: variables and doing it that way.
Then this needs to be documented in the (as yet nonexistent) NetBSD/arc
install notes in src/distrib/notes.
Also, NetBSD/arc has no ramdisk kernel and/or sysinst. This makes booting
from CD-ROM somewhat useless. (The Wasabi and NetBSD Mission 1.5 CDs, both
prepared with my tool in src/distrib/cdrom, don't directly boot on arc
machines because of the lack of a ramdisk installer.)
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