Subject: Re: Sysinst won't install onto ld0 on NetBSD 4.0 Beta 2
To: David W. Rankin Jr. <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
From: Todd Kover <kovert@omniscient.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/2007 11:35:46
> > I'm installing NetBSD 4.0 Beta 2 onto a new-to-me Dell PowerEdge
> > 2450. It's got the RAID card (PERC 3/Si, aac0) installed, and
> > I have confirmed that the install media can read and write to
> > ld0 from the install media (fdisk, disklabel, and newfs all
> > work). However, the installer won't see ld0 as a valid install
> > disk. sysinst says "no valid disks".
>
> I'm running into the same problem with installign on ld0 with NetBSD
> 4.0 BETA 2:
(for completeness, in case someone runs into this and is looking for an
answer)
I found the cause and submmited a pr with a patch to -current and
included a pullup request to 4.0. One line fix.
pr#kern/36244
-Todd