From 87b50587c884b805bc6bee3c35755d8812467af3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: thorpej Date: Sun, 1 Feb 1998 07:38:34 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update for ISO-9660 file system support. --- share/man/man8/man8.alpha/installboot.8 | 25 +++++++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/share/man/man8/man8.alpha/installboot.8 b/share/man/man8/man8.alpha/installboot.8 index d37dc9fd4e47..887a17f39061 100644 --- a/share/man/man8/man8.alpha/installboot.8 +++ b/share/man/man8/man8.alpha/installboot.8 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.2 1997/04/06 08:41:11 cgd Exp $ +.\" $NetBSD: installboot.8,v 1.3 1998/02/01 07:38:34 thorpej Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 1996, 1997 Christopher G. Demetriou. All rights reserved. .\" Copyright (c) 1995 Paul Kranenburg @@ -29,12 +29,12 @@ .\" (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF .\" THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. .\" -.Dd January 16, 1997 +.Dd January 31, 1998 .Dt INSTALLBOOT 8 -.Os +.Os NetBSD .Sh NAME .Nm installboot -.Nd install disk bootstrap software +.Nd install disk or CD-ROM bootstrap software .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm installboot .Op Fl nv @@ -52,8 +52,8 @@ area of a disk .Po and hence is limited in size to 7680 bytes .Pc , -and a second-stage boot program that resides in a FFS file -system on the disk +and a second-stage boot program that resides in a FFS or ISO-9660 file +system on the disk or CD-ROM image .Po typically with the name .Pa /boot @@ -113,6 +113,19 @@ you would install the first-stage boot program on the disk .Bd -literal -offset indent installboot /boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rsd0c .Ed +.Pp +Assuming the second-stage boot program +.Pa boot +resides in the ISO-9660 file system mounted on +.Pa /mnt +from +.Dq vnd0a , +you would install the first-stage boot progam into the CD-ROM image +(and therefore make the image bootable once burned onto a CD) by using +the command: +.Bd -literal -offset indent +installboot /mnt/boot /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rvnd0c +.Ed .Sh BUGS The NetBSD/alpha boot blocks can only load kernels from disks' .Dq a