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Booting from CD-RW disc
Hi, I have a PCI card with two SATA ports on Sun Ultra 10, so I can
use modern SATA discs for / file system. I simply specify the
following kernel config:
config netbsd root on wd0a type ?
Unfortunately OpenBoot cannot boot from the SATA card, so I either have
to use built-in IDE controller or the PCI SCSI card. Over the years all
of the IDE and SCSI discs that I hoarded have gradually failed and
nobody manufactures new ones any more.
Below is my boot partition:
ultra10# grep boot /etc/fstab
/dev/sd0a /boot ffs noauto,rw,log 0 0
ultra10# mount /boot
ultra10# ls -l /boot
total 26208
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 13287360 Mar 15 16:00 netbsd
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 113904 Mar 15 09:51 ofwboot
How can I replicate this on CD-RW disc, so that I can boot from it?
Is it as simple as creating a bootable iso9660? I found these
instructions https://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html#sparc64image which
I'm going to try in the next few days. But if anyone thinks that's not
the right way to go, then please let me know.
Thanks.
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