[flashboot] Getting flashboot to boot properly

[Stuart Henderson]

On 2007/05/16 13:59, Boudewijn Ector wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I've been trying (as a openBSD newbie) to get flashboot images for WRAP 
> from http://tilde.se/flashboot/ to work, on a PC-Engines WRAP board.
> For this I used the WRAP12 image. My host system is a i386 running 
> OpenBSD 4.0 (which should be sufficient, I guess).
> 
> I've done this:
> 
> gunzip -c WRAP12.bsd | dd of=/dev/sd0c && /usr/mdec/installboot -b /boot 
> /usr/mdec/biosboot sd0
> 
> After inserting into a PC-Engines board, it won't boot because the WRAP 
> board says the stick isn't bootable.
> Can someone give me a hint about this problem?

flashboot produces ramdisk kernels, not disk images. You need to
fdisk+disklabel+newfs the CF, install the boot loader, and copy the
kernel to the filesystem.