Re: installboot on landisk

[email protected] (Christos Zoulas) Wed, 26 Jun 2019 17:18:10 -0000 (UTC)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sh3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <[email protected]>,
Martin Husemann  <[email protected]> wrote:
>Hey folks,
>
>my recent sysinst changes broke installation on landisk.
>
>I am trying to fix it, but I don't understand how/why it worked before:
>
> - sysinst creates a MBR NetBSD partition starting at sector 32 (on my disk)
> - disklabel partition a starts at sector 32 too
> - sysinst runs: installboot /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootffs2
>   This causes a warning that the old MBR is ignored (likely all zeroes)
>
>AFAICT none of this changed due to my changes.
>
>But also it can not work, can't it?
>It should probably use /dev/rwd0d for the installboot invocation, as it
>patches code into the MBR (at sector 0 of the disk, not 32).
>

Are you running gxemul?

christos