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authorJoel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-03-01 06:27:29 +0000
committerJoel Sing <jsing@cvs.openbsd.org>2009-03-01 06:27:29 +0000
commit7e912a4de34e8f731828423a5f38dba2b00b51fc (patch)
tree4f482d7cb4710c33bc7bf14f0c11de87aa4530cf
parentd3784680c1516fb0cdc0b9ce629751f03270f5d5 (diff)
Sync disklabel instructions with reality and those detailed in INSTALL.sgi.
Issue spotted by matthieu@. ok miod@ deraadt@
-rw-r--r--distrib/sgi/ramdisk/install.md20
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/sgi/ramdisk/install.md b/distrib/sgi/ramdisk/install.md
index f1bd7b14c6b..f6d73213392 100644
--- a/distrib/sgi/ramdisk/install.md
+++ b/distrib/sgi/ramdisk/install.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: install.md,v 1.11 2008/06/26 05:42:04 ray Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: install.md,v 1.12 2009/03/01 06:27:28 jsing Exp $
#
#
# Copyright (c) 1996 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
@@ -124,15 +124,19 @@ __EOT
cat <<__EOT
-You will now create an OpenBSD disklabel. The default disklabel must have
-an 'a' partition which is the space available for OpenBSD.
-The 'i' partition must be retained since it contains the Volume Header and
-the boot loader.
+You will now create an OpenBSD disklabel. The disklabel must have an
+'a' partition, being the space available for OpenBSD's root file system.
+The 'p' partition must be retained since it contains the SGI Volume Header;
+this in turn contains the boot loader. No other partitions should overlap
+with the SGI Volume Header, which by default will use the first 3134 sectors.
+
+Additionally, the 'a' partition must be the first partition on the disk,
+immediately following the SGI Volume Header. If the default SGI Volume Header
+size is used, the 'a' partition should be located at offset 3135. If the
+'a' partition is not located immediately after the SGI Volume Header the
+boot loader will not be able to locate and load the kernel.
Do not change any parameters except the partition layout and the label name.
-Also, don't change the 'i' partition or start any other partition below the
-end of the 'i' partition. This is the Volume Header and destroying it will
-render the disk useless.
__EOT
disklabel -W $_disk