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Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly
From: |
Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly |
Date: |
Tue, 9 Sep 2003 15:48:59 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.4i |
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:00:28AM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
> --- Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I don't have any opinion on change #3, but changes #1 and #2 don't appear to
> > be related to netbooting (perhaps they refer to stage2/{boot.c,shared.h})
>
> Surely, the patch has code independent of netbooting, but I mean that it is
> not
> enough to boot OpenBSD from a disk.
>
> If you know more or less about the boot process of OpenBSD, take a look at the
> function "openbsd_boot" in the patch. It is obvious that it doesn't support
> booting from a disk, as bootdev is just ignored.
All right.. Too bad I don't have OpenBSD at hand to test it anyway.
--
Robert Millan
"[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the
thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he
gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work."
-- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)