Re: install/60872: Pinebook Pro: Cannot install to harddrive using sysinst, "ar: ./netbsd.ub: Not found in archive"

["Martin Husemann via gnats" <gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: install/60872: Pinebook Pro: Cannot install to harddrive using
 sysinst, "ar: ./netbsd.ub: Not found in archive"
Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:50:17 +0200

 On Tue, Oct 13, 2026 at 08:15:00PM +0000, entikan%tilde.pink@localhost via gnats wrote:
 
 > I boot NetBSD on my Pinebook Pro using Tow-Boot and log in as root.
 > Everything is fine, I can get online using a wifi dongle. I wanted to
 > install it to my emmc, so I used sysinst -> Install NetBSD to hard disk
 > and use the defaults on the MMC. Everything seems to work but when it
 > gets to "progress -zf /usr/INSTALL/kern-GENERIC64.tar.xz tar --chroot
 > -xpf - `./netbsd.ub`" it stops with error "ar: ./netbsd.ub: Not found
 > in archive". The resulting install is not found on boot.
 
 Can you please show what
 
 	sysctl hw.model
 
 says on your machine? Sysinst would expect
 
 	hw.model = netbsd,generic-acpi
 
 but it seems like your machine did provide a different identification,
 so sysinst things you are booting from u-boot w/o EFI.
 
 All my own aarch64 machines do use EFI and have hw.model like above,
 but I don't know if we support exceptions. Otherwise we could #ifdef
 the whole selection and always assume EFI for 64bit CPUs.
 
 Or maybe this is a "Tow-Boot" issue? Does it pass the proper dtb to
 the kernel?
 
 Martin