Subject: Re: FW: root disk image for netbsd
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
From: Jim Kidd <jpkidd@iupui.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 03/29/1998 13:37:49
>On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Jim Kidd wrote:
>
>> I am at home and have had a chance to try the 'built-in root filesystem'.
>> When I boot a kernel in MacOS it boots up okay to a point. When finished
>> it issues a n error message about "boot device unknown". It then asks for
>> a root device. The only possible choices are sd0a-g or cd0a-g. It then
>> asks for a dump device, which defaults to sd0b. Its third and final
>> question: what kind of file system.
>>
>> I never could make it to the 'built-in root filesystem'. How do you do it?
>
>It takes a specially-prepared kernel. The src/distrib stuff does it (I
>actually haven't myself). Since no ram disk image had been built into the
>kernel, it didn't see the ramdisk...
>
>Take care,
>
>Bill
Could you 'grind' one out and make it available somewhere? The reason I
ask is because I am sharing NetBSD on a 250 meg disk with MacOS and only
have about 60 megs dedicated to NetBSD. I am just running of the base,
etc, and man pages.
have a UNIX on me.