Re: kern/46100: NetBSD 6.0_BETA i386 iso boots fine, but fail out on some laptops

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/46100; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
        netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/46100: NetBSD 6.0_BETA i386 iso boots fine, but fail out on
 some laptops
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 19:28:12 +0100

 On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 07:23:38PM +0100, Fredrik Pettai wrote:
 > On Feb 26, 2012, at 4:50 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
 > > You should have made it clear in the PR.
 > > 
 > > Now, if sd0a is the right device, there's still something I don't
 > > understand. sd0 is not a cdrom device; from what did you boot ?
 > > an external usb cdrom drive ?
 > 
 > Yes, it's a "netbook", so it has no internal cdrom. 
 > I had to use Jared D. McNeill mkmemstick.sh to create a NetBSD 5.1.2 & a 
 > NetBSD 6.0_BETA i386 USB-stick.
 > 
 > NetBSD 5.1.2 works (I could complete a full installation), but the NetBSD 
 > 6.0_BETA halts before the boot finishes (as shown in the "cut-n-pasted" 
 > dmesg).
 
 OK, so it's not an iso, the subject is misleading.
 I guess there's an error in this script; it seems to create files
 (/sbin/init for example) without the x bit set.
 error 13 is EPERM, "permission denied"
 
 I don't think it's a problem with 6.0_BETA itself.
 
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 Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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