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Add a warning that booting the install kernel from a Solaris root partition 

may fail for non obvious reasons. Fixes for the bootloader will not be
available in-time for 4.0, unfortunately.
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martin 2007-09-16 21:41:16 +00:00
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.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.26 2006/11/25 22:53:35 mishka Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: install,v 1.27 2007/09/16 21:41:16 martin Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2002 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@ -164,6 +164,12 @@ partition and telling Open Firmware to boot the
.Nx
kernel.
.Pp
CAVEAT: this method is a bit fragile. Depending on physical partition layout,
partition size, and parameters used to create the filesystem of your
.Tn Solaris
root partition, bugs in the bootloader might be triggered and cause this
method to fail.
.Pp
First, copy the
.Pa netbsd-INSTALL.gz
kernel and bootloader to the root level of your hard drive and halt your