Subject: Re: Can you boot direct from a raidframe partition in 1.6...
To: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@chylonia.3miasto.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 07/18/2002 01:22:09
On Wed, 17 Jul 2002, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >
> > - /usr/mdec/installboot -b 16 /usr/mdec/installboot.sym /dev/rwd1d
> >
>
> i think creating separate ultrasmall partition is much cleaner method:
>
> like my drive's partition e.
>
> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> a: 38987000 1024300 4.2BSD 1024 8192 90 # (Cyl. 1016*-
> 39693*)
> b: 1024000 300 swap # (Cyl. 0*-
> 1016*)
> c: 40011300 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
> 39693*)
> d: 40011300 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 -
> 39693*)
> e: 300 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 0*)
> f: 1024000 300 MSDOS # (Cyl. 0*-
> 1016*)
>
>
> I'm not using RAID here but need to have a partition not beginning at 0,
> case when installboot doesn't work.
I tried that a couple of times but the boot loader failed to
run (machine just hung with flashing cursor or rebooted). I
think both ways are worth listing :)
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