Re: Installing on LFS

[Paul Goyette <paul%vps1.whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2015, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I've been trying to install NetBSD on an LFS partition.  sysinst allows
> me to set the partition table fstype to 4.4LFS but when I tell it that
> the partitions are OK, it reports
>
> 	No bootcode for specified FS type of root partition |
>
> 	>Hit enter to continue
>
> (This is within a qemu virtual machine.)

Hmm, OK, it appears that sysinst doesn't know which bootcode to use for
lfs partitions.

Since lfs version 1 is deprecated, and any new partitions default to
lfs version 2, would the following patch be acceptable??

Index: md.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/usr.sbin/sysinst/arch/amd64/md.h,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -u -p -r1.1 md.h
--- md.h        26 Jul 2014 19:30:44 -0000      1.1
+++ md.h        14 Nov 2015 11:59:00 -0000
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@
 #define        BOOTXXDIR       "/usr/mdec"
 #define        BOOTXX_FFSV1    "bootxx_ffsv1"
 #define        BOOTXX_FFSV2    "bootxx_ffsv2"
+#define        BOOTXX_LFS      "bootxx_lfsv2"


 /*


Similar changes could also be made to other arch's if they support lfs.



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