In article <22771.22148.161738.374...@guava.gson.org>, Andreas Gustafsson <g...@gson.org> wrote: >Izumi Tsutsui wrote: >> - prepare "serial console liveimage option" to build.sh by >> - using INSTALLBOOTOPTIONS (see distrib/common/bootimage/Makefile.bootimage) >> - special boot.cfg(5) to set consdev=com0 > >I'd like to avoid building special images for testing, because that >would mean the image being tested is not the same image that is being >shipped. Not that we actually ship the live images in releases >currently, but we should, and if or when we do, I would like to be >able to test those, too. > >> or >> - add an "partition offset" option to installboot(8) like makefs(8)'s -O > >That's not very user friendly but I think it would work. If no one >comes up with a way to do it using existing tools, I might add that.
Yes, I think that should be easy enough. Isn't there a way for installboot to find the offset itself? christos
