Subject: Re: No partition a in a cd disklabel
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/29/2004 10:04:39
On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, Richard Earnshaw wrote:

> I've just built a 2.0_BETA boot cdrom for my cats machine, and I was
> surprised to discover on booting it, that the default configuration can't
> install from the cdrom.
>
> The problem seems to be that the manufactured disk label for the drive
> (I'm assuming they're manufactured for CDs, it certainly says that it's
> fictitious) only has a partition 'c' and no partition 'a'.  That means
> that the defaults in sysinst (/dev/cd0a) for the mount leads to the error
> "Device not configured" -- only you don't see that because sysinst hides
> it, you find that out only on deeper investigation.  Using cd0c works
> fine, so I don't think it's the drive at fault.

	This looks similar to
	http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=25108

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