On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Luke Mewburn wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 03:40:50PM -0500, VaX#n8 wrote:
>   | I've upgraded an old system by installing over it and it looks like 1.6.2
>   | has a new installboot.  Of course old manpages are in the way, so I removed
>   | them.  Based on the new manpage I tried:
>   | /usr/sbin/installboot /altroot/boot /usr/mdec/biosboot.sym
>   | But that complains and doesn't work.  How am I supposed to make /altroot
>   | a bootable file system?
> 
> In NetBSD 1.6.x, /usr/sbin/installboot isn't for NetBSD/i386;
> use /usr/mdec/installboot as you did in previous releases.
> 
> For NetBSD-current, /usr/sbin/installboot has replaced
> /usr/mdec/installboot for NetBSD/i386, and the syntax is:
> 	cp /usr/mdec/boot /altroot/boot
> 	/usr/sbin/installboot -v /dev/rwdNa /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
> 
> (This is documented in the man page :)

It is indeed. (I did an install two days ago)

What is not explained is why the example (ffsv1) works,
even though I expected newfs to default to ffsv2 (which doesn't work).

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