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authorTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-27 03:22:01 +0000
committerTheo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>2005-04-27 03:22:01 +0000
commit1b497d776d776e691610aae1caf0890d0c315cd9 (patch)
tree426dbf23429619743b58e9f48dd75e9576aa5f68
parent23fde658f9eb978b36152d0dc30a52665d70fad0 (diff)
sgi can boot off a CD image as of today
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/sgi/install14
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/sgi/install b/distrib/notes/sgi/install
index 935a42ebfcc..6bc49ddd20b 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/sgi/install
+++ b/distrib/notes/sgi/install
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.5 2004/09/23 17:23:19 pefo Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.6 2005/04/27 03:22:00 deraadt Exp $
OpenBSDInstallPrelude
There are several ways to install OpenBSD onto a disk. The easiest way
in terms of preliminary setup is to use the OpenBSD ramdisk kernel that
-can be booted via BOOTP. Booting from CD is not yet supported.
+can be booted via BOOTP. The normal way is to the bootable CD-ROM
+mini image.
Booting over the network:
dnl XXX provide more details!!!
@@ -24,6 +25,15 @@ Maintenance Console:
> bootp()/bsd.rd
+Booting from CD-ROM installation media:
+
+ > boot pci(0)scsi(0)cdrom(4)rdisk(0)partition(8)/boot
+
+If the boot is successful, you will get a loader version message,
+executable sizes, and then the kernel copyright and device probe
+messages. Boot failure modes are typically a lot of CD-ROM drive
+activity, but no messages or complaints about magic numbers,
+checksums or formats.
Installing the system: