Subject: install/16246: installboot only installs axp, pmax, sparc64, vax
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/08/2002 17:07:09
>Number:         16246
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       installboot only installs axp, pmax, sparc64, vax
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Apr 08 08:09:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ignatios Souvatzis
>Release:        NetBSD 1.5ZC
>Organization:
	Bonn University, CS Dept.
>Environment:
System: NetBSD rock 1.5ZC NetBSD 1.5ZC (GENERIC_LAPTOP) #0: Sun Apr 7 18:24:05 CEST 2002 tron@lyssa.zhadum.de:/src/NetBSD-current/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC_LAPTOP i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
installboot from the above snapshot doesn't want to install i386 bootblocks.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install the abovementioned snapshot.
>Fix:
If this is an upgrade, the old bootblocks will remain installed after accepting
the error message, and sysinst will continue. If this was a -current machine,
they will be able to boot the new kernel.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: