2002-Aug-14

Made a bootstrap floppy with:

/usr/mdec/installboot -f -b 200 -t 60 /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym /dev/rfd0a

But I want to boot a cd(4)-based iso9660 filesystem. It is not supported. (I had discussed this on some mailing list back around February.) I asked port-i386 for suggestions for hacking sys/arch/i386/stand/biosboot/.

Used /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/rescue-small/rescue-small.fs boot image. It is a rescue floppy. No login prompt and has a few tools. I was able to make a network connection and ftp (disklabel info) from it. I was unable to mount OpenBSD filesystem from it though.

I read that NetBSD can't mount OpenBSD partitions. I see that disklabel info was way wrong.