Subject: Re: PR sparc/20122 (Was: default install from CD)
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com>
List: tech-install
Date: 02/18/2003 00:28:09
Well, I'm about 100% certain I didn't build the distrib tools right.  None
of the images booted my SS20.  I fought with it all for about 6 hours and
managed to get bin/cat from instfs.tgz and rename it to sysinst and use
that to try out an installation.

It didn't work.  Sysinst created /netbsd as a soft link to netbsd.GENERIC.
It didn't actually create a netbsd.GENERIC though.

I spent way more time than I'd've liked to, trying to get the distrib tools
to build.  On the other hand, I'd be happy to test pre-compiled stuff if
you have any other ideas for getting it to work right.

  -- MW

At 4:29 PM +0900 2/16/03, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

:)In article <v03130300ba74e6cd965d@[10.0.1.3]>
:)michael@nosflow.com wrote:
:)
:)> I just tried a non-custom install of 1.6.1_RC1 based on the 20020206
:)> nightly build and sysinst does *not*, I repeat *not* install a kernel.
:)>
:)> Anyone want to try fixing this before 1.6.1 is released?  It ought to be a
:)> relatively simple thing.
:)
:)The following patch would fix the problem,
:)but I can't test it right now..
:)---
:)Izumi Tsutsui
:)tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
:)
:)Index: distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/sparc/md.h
:)===================================================================
:)RCS file: /cvsroot/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/sparc/md.h,v
:)retrieving revision 1.10
:)diff -u -r1.10 md.h
:)--- distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/sparc/md.h	2001/11/29 23:24:25	1.10
:)+++ distrib/utils/sysinst/arch/sparc/md.h	2003/02/16 07:26:51
:)@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@
:) EXTERN distinfo dist_list[]
:) #ifdef MAIN
:) = {
:)-    {"kern-GENERIC",		0, NULL, "Kernel       : "},
:)+    {"kern-GENERIC",		1, NULL, "Kernel       : "},
:)     {"kern-GENERIC_SCSI3",	0, NULL, "Kernel       : "},
:)     {"kern-GENERIC_SUN4U",	0, NULL, "Kernel       : "},
:)     {"base",			1, NULL, "Base         : "},