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| author | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-10-25 20:56:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Miod Vallat <miod@cvs.openbsd.org> | 2009-10-25 20:56:25 +0000 |
| commit | eee1381a781a0491b9f63b7bc25e0567af62bec7 (patch) | |
| tree | 7d50e94ced04bd6582eeb15b6a875db546d0ac08 | |
| parent | a0dd365cd3f0ea6cb1c4554459f54bde313073f9 (diff) | |
Add a mention the `a' partition needs to be contained within the first 2GB
of the disk, for the prom to be able to correctly read the kernel image.
Found the hard way by landry@
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/hppa/install | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | distrib/notes/m4.common | 7 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/hppa/install b/distrib/notes/hppa/install index b41d842e99d..58e1648bb75 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/hppa/install +++ b/distrib/notes/hppa/install @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.18 2009/05/13 18:38:29 miod Exp $ +dnl $OpenBSD: install,v 1.19 2009/10/25 20:56:24 miod Exp $ dnl lots of texts coming from {mac68k,mvme68k,vax}/install initially OpenBSDInstallPrelude @@ -122,7 +122,10 @@ OpenBSDInstallPart3(,"sd0") OpenBSDInstallPart4 -OpenBSDInstallPart5 +OpenBSDInstallPart5(,{:- + Due to prom limitations, you should make sure the whole 'a' + partition is CONTAINED WITHIN THE FIRST 2GB of the disk if + you intend to boot from it.-:}) Since the target disk will become the boot disk for your new OpenBSD/MACHINE installation, the disklabel program will restrict diff --git a/distrib/notes/m4.common b/distrib/notes/m4.common index ed712fdc281..041b00c67e4 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/m4.common +++ b/distrib/notes/m4.common @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ dnl -dnl $OpenBSD: m4.common,v 1.88 2009/05/31 18:18:39 miod Exp $ +dnl $OpenBSD: m4.common,v 1.89 2009/10/25 20:56:24 miod Exp $ dnl dnl Copyright (c) 2004 Todd T. Fries <todd@OpenBSD.org> dnl @@ -504,7 +504,8 @@ ifelse(X$1,X,, After your OpenBSD MBR partition has been setup, the real partition setup can follow.-:})dnl dnl -dnl OpenBSDInstallPart5(mention about other OS partitions) +dnl OpenBSDInstallPart5(mention about other OS partitions,mention about root +dnl partition limitations) dnl Describes the disklabel operation dnl define({:-OpenBSDInstallPart5-:}, @@ -525,7 +526,7 @@ define({:-OpenBSDInstallPart5-:}, This partition can not be modified.$1 You must create partition 'a' as a native OpenBSD partition, i.e. - one with "4.2BSD" as the fstype, to hold the root file system. + one with "4.2BSD" as the fstype, to hold the root file system.$2 In addition to partition 'a' you should create partition 'b' with fstype "swap", and native OpenBSD partitions to hold separate file |