Re: Is it possible to install NetBSD from Ventoy?

[John McCue <jmclists%jmcunx.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 01:11:05PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
> I use this excellent multiboot tool instead of writing USB sticks. It
> saves me hours.
>
> https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
>
> NetBSD 9.3 and 10 are both throwing errors saying they can't locate /boot.
>
> Is it just me or my machine?

I never heard of it, but what image did you copy to the drive ?

I looked at the WEB page and this quote from the page indicates
to me it will not correctly write the image to the USB Drive:

> After the installation is complete, the USB drive will be
> divided into 2 partitions. The 1st partition was formated with
> exFAT filesystem

FWIW, after I dd(1) an amd64 install image to a USB, this is
some info from disklabel(8) and fdisk(8).  I have had no issues
booting from this USB.

8 partitions:
#      size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a: 5117952   2048 4.2BSD   1024  8192    16  # (Cyl. 1 -   2499)
 c: 5117952   2048 unused      0     0        # (Cyl. 1 -   2499)
 d: 5120000      0 unused      0     0        # (Cyl. 0 -   2499)


And this is some info from fdisk(8):

Partition table:
0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
    start 2048, size 5117952 (2499 MB, Cyls 0-318/179/53), Active
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
Bootselector disabled.
First active partition: 0
Drive serial number: 0 (0x00000000)