Re: re-transmission: Re: Prepping to install

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <558C588F.7030406%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
>On 06/25/15 12:30, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> In article <558C26D3.70607%hiwaay.net@localhost>,
>> William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:
>>> Everything looked OK w/ df & install proceeded & finished OK. Whassup
>>> here ? TIA for any pointers & have a good one.
>> Are you sure your root is ffsv2 and not ffsv1? Why is the a partition
>> offset 2048?
>>
>> christos
>
>
>Not sure about either. Disklabel thinks the slice is RAID under the 
>RAID[0,1], & 4.2BSD on top off the RAID 'device'. I am definitely *not* 
>expert at the ins & outs of NetBSD disk setup, booting, etc. I mostly 
>followed the (previously attached) README file to set everything up, & 
>that's what was recommended there (*not* an ideal circumstance, I know, 
>but the best I could do). I thought ffsv2 had superceded v1 a while 
>back, but I could be mistaken. I also thought 4.2BSD was synonomous w/ 
>FFSv2, no ? What should the root filesystem be for the boot process to 
>work correctly ? Also, what should the offset of the root partition be ? 
>I took defaults when I fdisk'ed the drive (fdisk -iau0 wd[0,1]), as 
>instructed in the afore-mentioned README file. Thanks for your reply & 
>TIA for any new guidance & have a good one.

You need to tell newfs to generate ffsv2, by default it creates ffsv1.
Why don't you install the ffsv1 boot blocks and see if that works.

christos