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.Ss2 Available Boot Media
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The BeBox firmware (BootROM) allows for system booting using:
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Local floppy disk, hard disk or CD-ROM with the following file systems:
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Be file system
.It
Old Be file system
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The
.Nx*M
doesn't support to create/read/write both file systems.
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However nbpowerpc-mkbootimage can create the image of Old Be file system for
floppy.
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.Ss2 Preparing the Bootable Media
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This section describes how to create a
.Nx*M
boot loader onto a floppy.
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Go to one of the
.Nx
mirror sites and download floppy image from the
.Pa bebox/installation/floppy/
directory named boot.fs or boot_vga.fs or boot_com.fs.
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boot.fs can boot with frame buffer.  If you look the 'Be' logo on your screen
then use this.  Use boot_vga.fs, if not.
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.(disp
.No # Ic "dd if=boot.fs of=/dev/rfd0a bs=18k"
.disp)
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If you have a x86 PC which runs
.Tn Windows
and use it to write the floppy image(s) to floppy disk,
you can use the
.Ic Rawrite32
Windows32 program
.Pq installed by Pa rawr32.exe
available in the
.Pa i386/installation/misc/
directory of the
.Nx
distribution.
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Also you can create boot.fs.
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.(disp
.No # Ic "nbpowerpc-mkbootimage -I -m bebox -b mdec/boot/boot boot.fs"
.disp)
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.Ss2 Loading kernel from Hard disk and Floppy disk.
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boot supports load kernel from Hard disk and Floppy disk connect to onboard.
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Loading a kernel from the 'a' partition on master IDE disk:
.(disp
.Ic /dev/disk/ide/0/master/0_0:/netbsd
.disp)
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.It
Loading a kernel from the Floppy disk:
.(disp
.Ic /dev/disk/floppy:/netbsd
.disp)
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.It
Loading a kernel from the 'd' partition on target 1 lun 2 SCSI disk:
.(disp
.Ic /dev/disk/scsi/0/1/2_3:/netbsd
.disp)
.(Note
This support is very experimental.
.Note)
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