Root Filesystem Size Rquirement for NetBSD 10?
Stan Johnson <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Jun 2024 18:32:47 -0600
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hello, Does anyone know whether there is a size requirement for the root filesystem in NetBSD 10.0 on mac68k when using the sysinst installer? With a 4 GiB Root+Usr filesystem, I've started seeing errors from the MacOS NetBSD Booter when trying to boot some kernels. A typical failure looks like this on a Mac IIci: Logging to bootlog.txt Booter version : 2.0.0 Free heap memory : 9367KB (out of 10240KB total requested) ------------------------------------- Macintosh type (MACHID) : 11 RAM size (physical RAM) : 65MB System file version : 7.5.5 Has AppleScript. Has Control Strip. Has Display manager version 2. ------------------------------------- Booting... transparent = 1 Boot error: This kernel is not in a format which the booter can execute. *********** Boot Stopped. *********** Restoring Monitor settings... There errors are not consistent. In one case that I didn't capture, the booter said it could not seek to the beginning of the file. The booter is configured to boot "netbsd" directly from the root partition; would it be better to boot kernels from the MacOS HFS partition instead? I saw the error once after re-compiling and using FTP to transfer the GENERICSBC kernel (MD5 checksums matched). I don't think there's a problem with my crossbuild environment, which is using NetBSD 10.0 on an i386 IBM ThinkPad T43. Do I need to ensure that the kernel file in the mac68k root filesystem is within the first 1 GiB, or 2 GiB? If yes, I'll just repartition and use a separate /usr, with / taking up the first 1 GiB. thanks -Stan