Re: boot-big.fs too big

[Manuel Bouyer]

On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:13:52PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> trying to create my own NetBSD/i386 iso image with mkisofs, noticed that
> boot-big.fs is way too big to emulate a floppy and that's why I had to
> use the -no-emul-boot to create the image properly.
>
> However, when I try to boot, I get the following message:
>
> "Please remove disk 2, insert disk 1, and press return..."
>
> I used to create NetBSD iso images before without problems, following
> the good documentation found at:
>
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html
>
> But from a long time, I didn't need to do this, and maybe I should
> have missed something. Is this documentation up to date with 5.0?

No. netbsd-5 uses the no-emulation boot method.

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[Daniel Bolgheroni]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:13:52PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > trying to create my own NetBSD/i386 iso image with mkisofs, noticed that
> > boot-big.fs is way too big to emulate a floppy and that's why I had to
> > use the -no-emul-boot to create the image properly.
> >
> > However, when I try to boot, I get the following message:
> >
> > "Please remove disk 2, insert disk 1, and press return..."
> >
> > I used to create NetBSD iso images before without problems, following
> > the good documentation found at:
> >
> > http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html
> >
> > But from a long time, I didn't need to do this, and maybe I should
> > have missed something. Is this documentation up to date with 5.0?
>
> No. netbsd-5 uses the no-emulation boot method.

Yes, I used -no-emul-boot, but using this option gives me the "error"
described above. What about the documentation at
http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html? Is it still valid?

Thank you.

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[Manuel Bouyer]

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 07:51:48PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>

> > On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 06:13:52PM -0300, Daniel Bolgheroni wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > trying to create my own NetBSD/i386 iso image with mkisofs, noticed that
> > > boot-big.fs is way too big to emulate a floppy and that's why I had to
> > > use the -no-emul-boot to create the image properly.
> > >
> > > However, when I try to boot, I get the following message:
> > >
> > > "Please remove disk 2, insert disk 1, and press return..."
> > >
> > > I used to create NetBSD iso images before without problems, following
> > > the good documentation found at:
> > >
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html
> > >
> > > But from a long time, I didn't need to do this, and maybe I should
> > > have missed something. Is this documentation up to date with 5.0?
> >
> > No. netbsd-5 uses the no-emulation boot method.
>

> Yes, I used -no-emul-boot, but using this option gives me the "error"
> described above. What about the documentation at
> http://www.netbsd.org/docs/bootcd.html? Is it still valid?

for i386, no. You now have to use makefs and installboot; see
src/distrib/cdrom and src/distrib/i386/cdroms/ for the details.

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