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| author | Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-04-08 09:51:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Jasper Lievisse Adriaanse <jasper@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2013-04-08 09:51:39 +0000 |
| commit | 5285fafd3b88f9e11cb286d9449e37ec35fee719 (patch) | |
| tree | 4e4e8f159d15914a51e5f44029548e4fde322e0f | |
| parent | d996861d046dc8851c93fa7f6fbe8d4a47697baf (diff) | |
expand instructions for manually configuring the MBR.
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/octeon/ramdisk/install.md | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/octeon/ramdisk/install.md b/distrib/octeon/ramdisk/install.md index 8936a20ed49..fefefe52811 100644 --- a/distrib/octeon/ramdisk/install.md +++ b/distrib/octeon/ramdisk/install.md @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -# $OpenBSD: install.md,v 1.3 2013/04/08 09:45:57 jasper Exp $ +# $OpenBSD: install.md,v 1.4 2013/04/08 09:51:38 jasper Exp $ # # # Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. @@ -90,10 +90,13 @@ __EOT # Manually configure the MBR. cat <<__EOT -You will now create a single MBR partition to contain your OpenBSD data. This -partition must have an id of 'A6'; must *NOT* overlap other partitions; and -must be marked as the only active partition. Inside the fdisk command, the -'manual' command describes all the fdisk commands in detail. +You will now create one MBR partition to contain your OpenBSD data +and one MBR partition on which kernels are located which are loaded +by U-Boot. Neither partition will overlap any other partition. + +The OpenBSD MBR partition will have an id of 'A6' and the boot MBR +partition will have an id of 'C' (MSDOS). The boot partition will be +at least 16MB and be the first 'MSDOS' partition on the disk. $(fdisk ${_disk}) __EOT |