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[src/netbsd-9]: src/distrib/notes/common Pull up following revision(s) (reque...



details:   https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/6af3c267f450
branches:  netbsd-9
changeset: 1026466:6af3c267f450
user:      martin <martin%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date:      Thu Nov 25 17:49:22 2021 +0000

description:
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by gutteridge in ticket #1376):

        distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.566
        distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.567

main: add note about amd64 now having a "bios" image, too

main: add .gz extension to .img references for consistency

diffstat:

 distrib/notes/common/main |  7 ++++++-
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diffs (21 lines):

diff -r 43cf36cfdc13 -r 6af3c267f450 distrib/notes/common/main
--- a/distrib/notes/common/main Mon Nov 22 17:06:24 2021 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/main Thu Nov 25 17:49:22 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.551.2.10 2020/10/23 08:32:27 martin Exp $
+.\"    $NetBSD: main,v 1.551.2.11 2021/11/25 17:49:22 martin Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1999-2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
 .\" All rights reserved.
@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@
 .Pp
 If installing via USB, you must first uncompress the USB image, which
 is gzipped.
+.if \n[amd64] \{\
+Note the \*M architecture has two images, NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img.gz
+and NetBSD-\*V-\*M-bios-install.img.gz. The latter is intended for older
+hardware which is unable to boot using a hybrid MBR and GPT image.
+.\}
 .Dl $ Ic "gunzip NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img.gz"
 Next, write the USB image to a USB stick/drive.
 Note that this will overwrite any existing data on the device that you



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