Subject: Re: Can't select FFSv2 in sysinst on 2.0?
To: None <port-amd64@netbsd.org>
From: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 01/13/2005 22:48:00
On 2005-01-13, Andrew Gillham <gillham@gmail.com> wrote:
> It looks like FFSv2 can't be used by default with sysinst because
> bootxx_ffsv2 is missing?
> (it says something like "can't find boot code for ffsv2" when I select it.
>
> Is this a known issue, expected behavior or something on me end?

You just need to have the / partition in FFSv1 in order to boot. The
other partitions can be FFSv1 or FFSv2. 

Not all architectures have FFSv2 compatible boot loader (SPARC is also
one of them).


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