Re: i386/amd64 image generated trough mkimage stuck on primary bootsrap at boot

[br0nko <br0nko%protonmail.com@localhost>]

On Friday, July 8th, 2022 at 12:31 AM, RVP <rvp%SDF.ORG@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jul 2022, br0nko wrote:
>
> > bash-5.1# vndconfig vnd0 /home/phil/alix-netbsd.9.2.img
> > bash-5.1# fdisk -vv /dev/rvnd0
> > installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
>
>
> Is rsd0a where you copied /usr/mdec/boot, and dies rsd0a start at the
> same sector as rsd0c (the NetBSD slice)? A disklabel output would
> be useful...
>
> -RVP

The mkimage script is taking care of copying the mdec/boot I think, here's from an image build from current tree:

bash-5.1# vndconfig vnd0 example-amd64-image.img
bash-5.1# fdisk -vv /dev/rvnd0
Disk: /dev/rvnd0
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 1157, heads: 64, sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 2369536, bytes/sector: 512

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 148, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 2369536

Partitions aligned to 2048 sector boundaries, offset 63

Partition table:
0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
    start 63, size 2312129 (1129 MB, Cyls 0/1/1-143/236/29), Active
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder  143, head 236, sector 29
        Information from PBR:
            Not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00)
            Not bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000)
1: <UNUSED> (sysid 0)
    start 0, size 0
        beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  0
        end: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  0
2: <UNUSED> (sysid 0)
    start 0, size 0
        beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  0
        end: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  0
3: <UNUSED> (sysid 0)
    start 0, size 0
        beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  0
        end: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  0
First active partition: 0
Drive serial number: 0 (0x00000000)

bash-5.1# disklabel  /dev/rvnd0
# /dev/rvnd0:
type: SCSI
disk: STORAGE DEVICE
label: fictitious
flags: removable
sectors/track: 32
tracks/cylinder: 64
sectors/cylinder: 2048
cylinders: 1157
total sectors: 2369536
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
 a:   2369473        63     4.2BSD      0     0     0  # (Cyl.      0*-   1156)
 c:   2312129        63     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0*-   1128)
 d:   2369536         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -   1156)

bash-5.1# mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt
bash-5.1# ls /mnt
.cshrc   altroot  boot     dev      lib      libexec  netbsd   rescue   sbin     tmp      var
.profile bin      boot.cfg etc      libdata  mnt      proc     root     stand    usr

bash-5.1# md5 /mnt/boot
MD5 (/mnt/boot) = 9d721d7c85264b66deff2d8472370870
bash-5.1# md5 /usr/mdec/boot
MD5 (/usr/mdec/boot) = 9d721d7c85264b66deff2d8472370870

bash-5.1# cat /mnt/boot.cfg
menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot
menu=Boot single user:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot -s
menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt
default=1
timeout=5
clear=1

bash-5.1# head /mnt/etc/release
NetBSD 9.99.98/amd64

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br0nko