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install/39894: Boot floppies no longer boot in -current
>Number: 39894
>Category: install
>Synopsis: Boot floppies no longer boot in -current
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: install-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Tue Nov 11 15:05:00 +0000 2008
>Originator: Andreas Gustafsson
>Release: NetBSD-current as of CVS date 2008.11.04.23.01.04
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD i386 under qemu
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
The NetBSD-current boot floppies no longer boot. I found this with
the boot-com1.fs floppy on a qemu i386 host, but I assume it also
affects other floppies and architectures as well as physical hosts.
Using an automated binary CVS search, I have determined that this
regression appeared with src/distrib/common/buildfloppies.sh revision
1.14. Revision 1.15 remains broken.
I suspect the problem may be caused by the fact that the first file in
the tar archive contained on the floppy is now "." rather than "boot".
>How-To-Repeat:
Run the following commands:
ftp
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200811090002Z/i386/installation/floppy/boot-com1.fs
qemu -nographic -serial stdio -fda boot-com1.fs
and observe that qemu hangs immediately.
>Fix:
Revert buildfloppies.sh to 1.13.
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