Subject: Re: port-i386/36808: NetBSD not installable from a second disk
To: None <port-i386-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 08/25/2007 15:45:05
The following reply was made to PR port-i386/36808; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Pavel Cahyna <pavel@NetBSD.org>
To: Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger@gmx.de>
Cc: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>, gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org,
netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org, gnats-admin@NetBSD.org,
port-i386-maintainer@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/36808: NetBSD not installable from a second disk
Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:44:04 +0200
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200708190002Z/i386/installation/cdrom/boot.iso
>
> I just realized, that the kernel used therein looks very old or is
> somehow garbarged (although it is prints the latest kernel version
> 4.99.29). It does not even recognize the AMD PCI vendor and product ids.
> But the ids are in the kernel for a long time.
> May it be, that sysinst in the ramdisk is also very old or garbaged?
install kernels do not have the database of PCI ids to save space.