Blue Swirl wrote:
When I changed 'cdrom' to 'cdrom:d', several images couldn't boot, strangely including some of the NetBSD ones which don't want ':d'. Maybe our Sun partition logic is not correct or we are ignoring some kind of bootability flag.
Maybe. The Sun partition handling is one of the parts I haven't really touched, and I can't say that I've seen a specification for it either, so the behaviour is probably unknown.
Interestingly enough, I was testing with netbsd on ppc before I committed the last patch, and it appears to load the kernel but then hang early during execution. A couple of error messages on the console seem to indicate that it wants an implementation of dma-alloc, although it seems a bit strange that it locks the machine up...
ATB,
Mark.