Re: boot from current failing on AMD64

["Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>]

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 07:58:35PM +0100, Ian Clark wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I'm currently running a current kernel over a 5.1_STABLE userland, and
> yesterday, for no real reason (other than quite fancying VESA modes on
> boot) I decided to install the boot from the current tree I've used to
> build the kernel.
> 
> However, much to my suprise it didn't work, and as I'll end up
> upgrading to this at some point when 6.0 branches I thought it might
> be worth seeing if anyone had any ideas why.
> 
> This happened with a boot from 5.99.48, however to check I've upgraded
> to head (5.99.51) earlier today and the problem still exists.
> 
> I'm running the first stage bootstrap from 5.99.48 (installed with
> installboot), and the secondary bootstrap from 5.1_STABLE (from feb
> this year by the looks of it.) and the machine boots okay.
> 
> However if I copy the 'boot' from the current source tree it fails to
> boot with a 'bad partition' error, and the first HD doesn't seem to
> contain a netbsd partition at all (by typing 'dev'):-
> 
> http://ohmyno.co.uk/~ian/bsd/IMG_0359.JPG (Note, there's a /boot.cfg
> file too, so it's deffo not seeing the partition at all.)
> http://ohmyno.co.uk/~ian/bsd/IMG_0361.JPG

Does hd0 have a real disklabel on it?

        Jonathan Kollasch