Subject: Note for installing w/out autoboot monitor
To: list NetBSD port-pc532 <port-pc532@netbsd.org>
From: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>
List: port-pc532
Date: 12/26/2002 16:08:53
This note complements the information about booting the pc532
when not using the autoboot ROM. The current INSTALL document
is not telling.
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After the installation finishes you can find out the details of the
boot image using bim, e.g. on sd0:
# bim /dev/rsd0c
Disk: mysd1 Type: SCSI disk
Physical Sector Size = 512
Disk Size = 891574
partition type sector start length in sectors
a 4.2BSD 0 783700
b swap 783700 92200
h boot 885120 6454
Boot partition = h
Default boot image = 0
Boot Images: total of 8
(image address and size in sectors.)
Image address size load addr run addr name
0 0 72 0x3be000 0x3be020 boot
You now have the details for booting the image, in this case:
read d'885120 3be000 d'72
run 3be020
If you constructed the disk yourself then you need to first
install the boot image. Again, using bim, the commands are:
add /usr/mdec/boot boot
default 0
q
If you get a message asking to initialise the boot images
then you probably should accept it, then proceed with the
above commands.
If the disk is not mounted on /, but, say, on /mnt, then use
the boot image in /mnt/usr/mdec/boot.
--
Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>