The installboot regress tests use -p on octeon which works fine.
I don't have serial console access to octen machines at the moment, but
this should just fly as installboot already has -p support on octeon.
It's also easy to test with snapshot media as one can easily apply this
patch in the installer's (S)hell prompt to /install.md with, e.g. ed(1).
visa kindly tested a fresh installation with this which works fine.
This leaves only loongson behind doing manual newfs rather than use -p,
but I don't have access to any hardware and regress doesn't cover it.
Feedback? OK?
Index: octeon/ramdisk/install.md
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RCS file: /cvs/src/distrib/octeon/ramdisk/install.md,v
retrieving revision 1.23
diff -u -p -r1.23 install.md
--- octeon/ramdisk/install.md 6 Feb 2022 15:52:23 -0000 1.23
+++ octeon/ramdisk/install.md 11 Sep 2022 15:14:01 -0000
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ md_prep_fdisk() {
echo -n "Creating a FAT partition and an OpenBSD
partition for rest of $_disk..."
fdisk -iy -b "65536@64:C" ${_disk} >/dev/null
echo "done."
- disklabel $_disk 2>/dev/null | grep -q "^ i:" ||
disklabel -w -d $_disk
- newfs -t msdos ${_disk}i
+ installboot -p $_disk
return ;;
[eE]*)
# Manually configure the MBR.
