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

[Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>]

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

From: Fredrik Pettai <pettai%nordu.net@localhost>
To: Andreas Gustafsson <gson%gson.org@localhost>
Cc: gnats-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 20:21:18 +0100

 On Feb 26, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
 >>> 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"
 >>>=20
 >>> I don't think it's a problem with 6.0_BETA itself.
 >>=20
 >> But why would the NetBSD 5.1.2 iso -> USB-stick work then?
 >=20
 > Because 5.1.2 used a ramdisk as the root file system, while 6.0_BETA
 > uses the file system on the boot media (in your case, the memory
 > stick).
 >=20
 > What version of mkmemstick are you using?  I believe I fixed this
 > problem in mkmemstick-20111013 in pkgsrc.
 
 Ok, thanks,
 I don't know what version I currently have, so I'll give newest pkgsrc =
 version a try then.