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NetBSD 11 amd64 installer broken?
Is it just me, or is the amd64 install image for NetBSD 11 not booting?
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/20251020141107Z/images/NetBSD-11.0_BETA-amd64-install.img.gz
The kernel boots, but it doesn't like the root device. I even tried this
on two different systems. The GPT type is listed as "unknown". From a
running NetBSD system, the GPT type looks fine:
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 2014 Unused
2048 262144 1 GPT part - EFI System
264192 4853760 2 GPT part - NetBSD FFSv1/FFSv2
5117952 2015 Unused
5119967 32 Sec GPT table
5119999 1 Sec GPT header
5120000 2744320 Unused
https://www.klos.com/~john/installnoroot.jpg
But wait! There's more! If I use a blue USB-3 port, one test machine
boots the install kernel and can see the NetBSD FFS partition.
With the other, all USB ports act the same, but if I unplug the USB stick
and plug it in to a different port (both a different port of the same kind
or a different kind of port)(on both systems), the GPT types are correct:
https://www.klos.com/~john/installreinserted.jpg
Does anyone know why a booting kernel can't read the GPT partition
correctly sometimes?
John
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