Re: Readying a disk for booting NetBSD-5

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

On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:32:58PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
>   This is, I believe, my error for newfs'ing with an FFSv2  
> filesystem.

Indeed.

>  Though, I  
> have some recollection that there was [to be] motion on booting from  
> FFSv2 on sparc's.

Sparc can do it nowadays, but not sparc64 - the bootblock is written
in forth so can't use the easy FFSv2 support from libstand, and noone
came around to do the (few) modifications to deal with it in forth.

Martin