Re: ofwboot enhancement

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

> the following patch will make ofwboot automatically find a NetBSD root
> partition, when no device name is specified in the boot file name.
> 
> For example a simple "boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf" will now always find the root
> partition and load the netbsd kernel from it.

(btw your mailer converts tab to four spaces?)

Does it still work with disk which don't have MBR or
valid Apple parititon map?

installboot(8) creats "faked" Apple partition map to make
old OF 2.x load primary bootxx.
(see src/usr.sbin/installboot/arch/macppc.c:writeapplepartmap())

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Izumi Tsutsui