[CUWiN-Dev] cdboot and the 'iso' step

[David Young]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 02:12:26PM -0800, John Atkinson wrote:
> mkstaboot: finished step 'floppy'
> mkstaboot: begin step 'iso'
> Found bootdisk with system i386, and filename
> /root/scratch-cuw/D/usr/mdec/cdboot
> nbmakefs: cd9960_add_boot_disk:
> lstat("/root/scratch-cuw/D/usr/mdec/cdboot"): No such file or directory
> 
> If I compile cdboot manually, and drop it where the 'iso' step wants to find
> it, I can get a *.iso by running mkstaboot from the 'iso' step.
> 
> # ./buildiso iso
> 
> Burning that to disc it seems to half boot, on both Unix and Windows.
> Echoing, "NetBSD/i386 cd9660 Primary Bootstrap" before halting to a flashing
> prompt.
> 

John,

I recognize the problem.  It is a problem I have solved by making some
changes to cdboot.  I haven't distributed the changes, yet.  Let me put
the patches in final form and commit them.  This is my first priority.

Dave

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