On May 6, 2011, at 6:50 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > On 05/06/11 00:21, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >> On May 5, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >> >>> On 05/05/11 16:18, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: >>>> On May 5, 2011, at 7:16 AM, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >>>> >>>>> @@ -84,15 +63,13 @@ if [ $bootable = yes ]; then >>>>> mv $MNT/boot/loader.efi $MNT/efi/boot/bootia64.efi >>>>> umount $MNT >>>>> mdconfig -d -u $md >>>>> - BOOTOPTS="-b $EFIPART -no-emul-boot" >>>>> + BOOTOPTS="-b bootimage=i386;$EFIPART -o no-emul-boot" >>>>> else >>>>> BOOTOPTS="" >>>>> fi >>>> Thanks! >>>> >>>> Can you explain what this particular change does or why it's done? >>>> >>> I'm cleaning up the release-building code, and am switching them from >>> mkisofs to makefs, which provides the same functionality. This started with >>> some irritation with the cdrtools port and a bug in the HFS hybrid >>> generation that was breaking PPC release CD generation. Switching these to >>> depend on makefs in general speeds the release-building process and removes >>> the number of dependencies involved, since makefs is built as part of base. >> Actually, I was just interested in the 'bootimage=i386' part >> of your change. I totally get why you're doing it :-) > > Ah, OK :) > > That just sets the El Torito system type to 0 (x86), which is what IA64 uses, > as far as I can tell, and doesn't turn on any special magic like is done for > the mac. I suppose while we're monkeying about with makefs, we could add an > 'ia64' alias.
Nah, don't worry about it... -- Marcel Moolenaar mar...@xcllnt.net _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
