Re: Root Filesystem Size Rquirement for NetBSD 10?

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 05, 2024 at 06:32:47PM -0600, Stan Johnson wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Does anyone know whether there is a size requirement for the root
> filesystem in NetBSD 10.0 on mac68k when using the sysinst installer?

The official boot loader is unable to use 10 byte SCSI read commands,
so the limit to access all files fully should be at 1 GB.

There are patches and a recent thread about this that is trying to update
the boot loader, but so far nothing came out of it. If you can update the
booter manually you can try

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/martin/mac68k/booter.sea.hqx

from the README in that directory:

This binaries are a variant of the mac68k booter to load the kernel from
bigger scsi disks.

I started with 2.0.1a6 from Nigel Pearson.
I compiled with MPW.
Sometime in-between my external SCSI disk where this all lived died, so
no full source set, but the file read_disk.c was the only one with real
changes (besides some ifdef mess for build fixes).

Martin