Re: newfs_msdos on install media ?

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Dec 24,  8:31pm, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
} Subject: Re: newfs_msdos on install media ?
} On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 12:32:24PM -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
} > On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 07:09:50PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
} > >
} > > I tried to setup a gpt boot on a 4Tb disk, following
} > > http://www.netbsd.org/~mishka/gptboot/howto.html
} > 
} > These instructions are obsolete.  Booting NetBSD from GPT w/ PC-BIOS
} > doesn't require a FAT file system.  I believe the method described at
} > https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/jakllsch/gptboot/ still corresponds to the
} > current architecture.
} 
} I tried, and I get:
} # gpt biosboot dk0
} gpt: /dev/rsd0: map entry doesn't fit media: new start + new size < start + size
} (22 + 4ffffde < 1000 + 5000000)
} [1]   Segmentation fault (core dumped) gpt biosboot dk0
} 
} # gpt show sd0
}        start        size  index  contents
}            0           1         PMBR (active)
}            1           1         Pri GPT header
}            2          32         Pri GPT table
}           34        4062         Unused
}         4096    83886080      1  GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2
}     83890176    16777216      2  GPT part - NetBSD swap
}    100667392  7712268288      3  GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2
}   7812935680        4063         Unused
}   7812939743          32         Sec GPT table
}   7812939775           1         Sec GPT header
} 
} any idea ?

     That's interesting.  From what version of NetBSD is that gpt(8)?

}-- End of excerpt from Manuel Bouyer