On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:17:23PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 09:03:04PM -0500, John Valdes wrote:
> >
> > no. As others said, though, you can simply use multiple bootloaders:
> > yaboot for Linux, ofwboot for NetBSD, etc. To make the boot process
> > easier, I recommend using ybin. ybin is a Bourne shell script which
> > can create a boot script which OpenFirmware can use for booting the
> > different bootloaders. The boot script is a "CHRP" script (basically,
> > a script written in Forth) which OpenFirmware can load from disk and
> > interpret. The boot script presents you w/ a text menu from which you
> > can choose which OS to boot. Mine gives me the following menu:
> >
> > Pick an OS, any OS:
> >
> > Press m for MacOS,
> > t for MacOS X,
> > b for NetBSD,
> > l for Linux,
> > or
> > c for CDROM,
> > n for Network,
> > o for OpenFirmware.
> >
> > Boot:
> >
> > Once you enter a choice, the script then executes the required boot
> > command, eg:
> >
> > boot hd:10,\\:tbxi for MacOS on partition 10
> > boot hd:9,\ofwboot.elf hd:12/netbsd for NetBSD w/ bootloader on 9,
> > kernel on 12
> > boot hd:9,\yaboot for yaboot bootloader on 9
>
>
> i will add support for this to ybin 1.2 to be released RSN. the
> config option will be netbsd=/dev/whatever where /dev/whatever is the
> netbsd bootstrap partition. this CAN be the same as ybin's bootstrap
> partition but at this time ybin won't be able to install the netbsd
> loader. so you will have to install the netbsd loader in the
> bootstrap partittion yourself (making sure its not set to type tbxi).
> and refrain from running mkofboot instead of ybin.
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.
--
Edouard G. Parmelan
http://egp.free.fr
