Subject: Re: Can't select FFSv2 in sysinst on 2.0?
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
List: port-amd64
Date: 01/14/2005 00:34:19
On Thursday, 13. January 2005 23:48, you wrote:
> 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).

That's is not true for amd64; this looks more like an oversight in the
install image's file list.


- Klaus