Re: ybin and NetBSD [Was: GNU/Linux, NetBSD and Mac OS X]
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 03:38:45PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 05:29:14PM +0200, Edouard G. Parmelan wrote:
> >
> > The behavior of ybin for NetBSD is note usefull. I will prefers the
> > following:
> >
> > # root partion ofr NetBSD
> > bsd=/dev/had11
> >
> > Then ybin will transtate to:
> >
> > boot hd:10,\ofwboot.elf hd:11,/netbsd
> >
> > where hd:10 is yaboot bootstrap partition.
>
> netbsd's bootloader doesn't have a config file?
No. Without option ofwboot will use /netbsd on same partition as
ofwboot. With a OF path as argument, it will use that file as netbsd
kernel or the file 'netbsd' in that directory.
> hardcoding /netbsd is bad since i don't have seperate options for all
> the bsds, only one generic. (thats the way its staying too).
What about this syntax:
bsd=/dev/hda10 hd:11,/netbsd
First part is generic, others options are passed verbatim.
--
Edouard G. Parmelan
http://egp.free.fr
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