Subject: install/7813: sysinst (sparc) installs strangely-named kernels
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <deberg@MIT.EDU>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/19/1999 05:50:49
>Number: 7813
>Category: install
>Synopsis: sysinst (sparc) installs netbsd.GENERIC{,_SCSI3}, not netbsd
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: install-manager (NetBSD system installation bug manager)
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Sat Jun 19 05:50:01 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: matt debergalis
>Organization:
matt debergalis <deberg@mit.edu> KB1CTH
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>Release: 1.4
>Environment:
System: NetBSD storrow-drive.mit.edu 1.4C NetBSD 1.4C (STORROW) #1: Mon Jun 7 16:49:15 EDT 1999 deberg@storrow-drive.mit.edu:/src/netbsd/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/STORROW i386
>Description:
sysinst, off the NetBSD 1.4 sparc install floppy, installed
/netbsd.GENERIC and /netbsd.GENERIC_SCSI3. at the end of the
install it printed out the cryptic "the completed root
filesystem failed a basic sanity check." error message, with no
further explanation. turns out the problem was that neither of
those kernels is installed as /netbsd.
>How-To-Repeat:
obvious.
>Fix:
dunno if it's appropriate to make netbsd.GENERIC the default,
either one should install as /netbsd or sysinst should ask the
user.
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: