Re: Installation Error For Mac68k NetBSD on SE/30

[RJ Kucia <rjkucia%gmail.com@localhost>]

> Hum - I don't think the Booter supports FFS v2 filesystems, yet.
> OTOH, sysinst shouldn't create any, at least not for the root
> file-system.

The file system I created was an A/UX partition in HD SC Setup, which
was then formatted with mkfs (as per the guide I was following). Not
sure exactly which type of file system it creates, though, but that
could be the issue.

> ...details?

Unfortunately I didn't look closely at it before continuing on, but if
it happens again I'll post the full error message.

On Sat, Aug 19, 2023 at 10:11 AM John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Hum - I don't think the Booter supports FFS v2 filesystems, yet.
> > OTOH, sysinst shouldn't create any, at least not for the root
> > file-system.
>
> There are two ways around this:
>
> 1) Create a small FFSv1 partition towards the beginning of the disk
> (perhaps right after the Mac OS one) that'll have at least the kernel. You
> can then have a large (any size) FFSv2 as the rest of the disk and set the
> root to that.
>
> 2) Keep your kernel on your Mac OS volume and boot it from there. Once the
> system is up and running, install pkgsrc/sysutils/hfsutils and use hcopy
> to update the kernel from the NetBSD side when it's time to update.
>
> The Booter does need to be fully modernized one of these days.
>
> John