Subject: Re: netbsd on indy
To: david l goodrich <dlg@iastate.edu>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 03/10/2003 17:06:50
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 07:04:21PM -0600, david l goodrich wrote:
> from the faq at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sgimips/faq.html :
>
> * Then prepare a second hard disk with NetBSD's FFS and disklabel. You
> then tell the kernel to use root/swap on the second disk. The firmware
> can't currently boot the kernel from an FFS filesystem, though, and
> you'll need to boot that via the net for now.
>
> ... so you /always/ have to netboot the machine? even after the OS is
> installed?
I think that's a little out of date ... there is a disk boot block now.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>