Re: [bug #485] cannot boot OpenBSD directly

[Harry Putnam]

Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:00:28AM +0100, Yoshinori Okuji wrote:
>>  --- Robert Millan <address@hidden> wrote:
>> > I don't have any opinion on change #3, but changes #1 and #2 don't appear 
>> > to
>> > be related to netbooting (perhaps they refer to stage2/{boot.c,shared.h})
>> 
>> Surely, the patch has code independent of netbooting, but I mean that it is 
>> not
>> enough to boot OpenBSD from a disk.
>> 
>> If you know more or less about the boot process of OpenBSD, take a look at 
>> the
>> function "openbsd_boot" in the patch. It is obvious that it doesn't support
>> booting from a disk, as bootdev is just ignored.
>
> All right.. Too bad I don't have OpenBSD at hand to test it anyway.

Has anything further happened on this?... Its dated Sept 9 2003.

I'm having trouble even creating a boot floppy for openbsd with
current cvs sources (detailed in another post 
   Subject:  trouble using cvs grub as bootloader)

Are there patches around that would help?