port-sparc64: Re: cannot boot netbsd, manual install from solaris

Subject: Re: cannot boot netbsd, manual install from solaris
To: Ben Collver <collver@peak.org>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 03/11/2005 08:15:40

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:40:27PM -0800, Ben Collver wrote:
> I made the NetBSD partition in Solaris, I newfs'ed the partition in the
> shell from the NetBSD boot CD, then did a manual install.  I can boot
> both, but Solaris disk utilities can't seem to find the disklabel any
> more.  All this reinstalling is time-consuming, I think I will stop now.

You definitively need to avoid the NetBSD disk label.

Martin