Re: Testing sysinst.fs

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, David Ross wrote:

> Ahh, spoke a little too soon.  After hte disk format is complete, sysinst 
> runs the following command:
>
> /usr/mdec/installboot -v /dev/rsd0c
>
> ..and I get:
>
> installboot: Cannot stat /netbsd, no bootversion check done
> installboot: /dev/rsd0c: unknown: Device type not supported.
>
> I think the first message may just be a warning.  The second one is certainly 
> a critical failure and sysinst takes me back to the main menu without 
> continuing the install.
>
> If I start up a shell and try the command myself I get the same result.  I 
> can also try /dev/sd0c instead of /dev/rsd0c and I get the same thing.
>
> This is exciting though, I'm optimistic that this could be the last major 
> problem to solve before we get a working install!

        It looks like the struct disklabel is no longer setting
        d_type, so it cannot work out whether to use the scsi, ide,
        or floppy boot blocks.  I think I have a workaround for
        that - will post a new sysinst.fs after I've run a full
        build.

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