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authorOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-03-05 14:25:43 +0000
committerOtto Moerbeek <otto@cvs.openbsd.org>2010-03-05 14:25:43 +0000
commitc305baaf13d88ae8b5cc03c8663520d3054d1338 (patch)
tree9084c4143ecdd6249f05330e0041f7782310593b
parent7c1cada39e026916ab713f71e930b3294c7499b1 (diff)
Make more clear by removing references to old method of setup and
reshuffling things a bit ok miod@ jasper@ kettenis@
-rw-r--r--distrib/notes/loongson/install32
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/loongson/install b/distrib/notes/loongson/install
index 48eddaeb408..250c5e5e843 100644
--- a/distrib/notes/loongson/install
+++ b/distrib/notes/loongson/install
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.9 2010/03/05 08:21:31 otto Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.10 2010/03/05 14:25:42 otto Exp $
OpenBSDInstallPrelude
Booting the installation media:
@@ -84,10 +84,10 @@ OpenBSDInstallWrapup
Lemote systems final steps:
- Lemote systems ship with a boot menu. After the installation
- is complete, you should copy the OpenBSD/MACHINE bootloader
- to a PMON bootable location, and add an OpenBSD entry to the
- boot menu to be able to boot OpenBSD more easily.
+ Lemote systems ship with a boot menu. After an installation
+ preserving the Linux partitions is complete, you can add an
+ OpenBSD entry to the boot menu to be able to boot OpenBSD
+ more easily.
The boot menu contents are found in /boot/boot.cfg on the Linux
partition. To add an OpenBSD entry, simply add a new entry in
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ OpenBSDInstallWrapup
args ""
In the example above, /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/boot is the PMON
- path to the OpenBSD bootloader, which can be found in
- /usr/mdec on the installed system.
+ path to the OpenBSD bootloader, which is copied to
+ that location by the install script.
You may make OpenBSD the default option by changing the
``default'' line near the top of the file. The value on this
@@ -125,13 +125,6 @@ OpenBSDInstallWrapup
PMON> set moresz 30
- If you do not want to use the boot menu, you may simply
- disable it in the environment, and set the `al' variable
- to point to the bootloader path:
-
- PMON> set ShowBootMenu no
- PMON> set al /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/boot
-
The bootloader will attempt to load the kernel file set in
the `bsd' environment variable. Should this fail, it will
wait for user commands. The value of `bsd' should be a
@@ -140,6 +133,17 @@ OpenBSDInstallWrapup
PMON> set bsd /bsd
+ If you have removed the Linux installation or if you do not
+ want to use the boot menu, you may simply disable it in the
+ environment, and set the `al' variable
+ to point to the bootloader path:
+
+ PMON> set ShowBootMenu no
+ PMON> set al /dev/fs/ext2@wd0/boot/boot
+
+ Alternatively, you might want to create a /boot/boot.cfg
+ file in the small Linux partition created by the installation.
+
On the Fuloong 2F, getting PMON to use the serial console
is tricky, due to PMON bugs and design decisions made by
Lemote.