Re: Installing NetBSD (8.0_BETA) on GPT disk and EFI

[Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost>]

ouch, thanks!  :P

On December 3, 2017 12:41:05 PM CET, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> s:/etc/fdisk:/etc/fstab:   # ;^]
> 
> On Sun, 3 Dec 2017 at 09:31 Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Dec 03, 2017 at 02:21:31AM +0200, Iliyan Stoyanov wrote:
> > >
> > > I decided to abandon the use of the installer and just drop to a
> shell
> > and
> > > proceed by hand. I use gpt to create a 512MB efi partition, and
> then
> > proceed to
> > > create a swap one, and 3 more FFS partitions. When I try to use
> those in
> > the
> > > installer, I always reach some errors and can not move forward
> with the
> > > installation of the sets. If I try to use the partitioning tool
> from the
> > menu I
> > > always end up loosing the EFI partition, which I wan't there, no
> matter
> > if I'm
> > > gonna use it or not. After creating the partitions in the console,
> dkctl
> > shows
> > > the wedges properly, I create FS on them with newfs, but in the
> end,
> > even if I
> > > chose to use current partition table, the installer doesn't like
> it and
> > I can't
> > > install NetBSD successfully.
> >
> > If you already did all the partitioning manually, you could also
> just
> > `tar xpzf' the sets and adjust /etc/rc.conf & /etc/fdisk.
> >
> > Last two steps would then be `installboot' and `gpt biosboot'.
> >
> > I was migrating the rootfs of a netbsd-6 box yesterday; here are the
> > gpt, dkctl, newfs, installboot steps I did:
> >
> >   $ sudo gpt show wd0
> >           start       size  index  contents
> >               0  976773168
> >
> >   $ sudo gpt create wd0
> >
> >   $ sudo gpt show wd0
> >           start       size  index  contents
> >               0          1         PMBR
> >               1          1         Pri GPT header
> >               2         32         Pri GPT table
> >              34  976773101
> >       976773135         32         Sec GPT table
> >       976773167          1         Sec GPT header
> >
> >   $ sudo gpt add -b 2048 -t ffs wd0
> >     Partition added, use:
> >             dkctl wd0 addwedge <wedgename> 2048 976771087 <type>
> >     to create a wedge for it
> >
> >   $ sudo gpt label -i 1 -l netbsd-root wd0
> >     partition 1 on rwd0d labeled netbsd-root
> >
> >   $ sudo gpt show wd0
> >           start       size  index  contents
> >               0          1         PMBR
> >               1          1         Pri GPT header
> >               2         32         Pri GPT table
> >              34       2014
> >            2048  976771087      1  GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2
> >       976773135         32         Sec GPT table
> >       976773167          1         Sec GPT header
> >
> >   $ sudo dkctl wd0 addwedge netbsd-root 2048 976771087 ffs
> >     dk4 created successfully.
> >
> >   $ sudo newfs -O2 /dev/rdk4
> >     /dev/rdk4: 476939.0MB (976771080 sectors) block size 32768,
> fragment
> > size 4096
> >             using 643 cylinder groups of 741.75MB, 23736 blks, 46848
> > inodes.
> >     super-block backups (for fsck_ffs -b #) at:
> >     192, 1519296, 3038400, 4557504, 6076608, 7595712, 9114816,
> 10633920,
> > (...)
> >
> >
> .....................................................................(...)
> >
> >   $ sudo installboot -v -o console=com0,speed=115200,timeout=5
> /dev/dk4
> > /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
> >     File system:         /dev/dk4
> >     Primary bootstrap:   /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv2
> >     Ignoring PBR with invalid magic in sector 0 of `/dev/dk4'
> >     Boot options:        timeout 5, flags 0, speed 115200, ioaddr 0,
> > console com0
> >
> >   $ sudo gpt biosboot -c /usr/mdec/gptmbr.bin -i 1 wd0
> >
> >
> > /etc/fdisk would then contain something like:
> >
> >     NAME=netbsd-root / ffs rw 0 1
> >
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> > Petar
> >

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