Subject: install/17522: install (sysinst) fails in 20020627-1.6B snapshot
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <refling@comet.lbl.gov>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/08/2002 10:42:42
>Number: 17522
>Category: install
>Synopsis: install (sysinst) fails in 20020627-1.6B snapshot
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: install-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jul 08 10:43:00 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: John Refling
>Release: 1.6B
>Organization:
LBNL
>Environment:
sparc 10
>Description:
after an install of 1.6B the system is unbootable, complaining that
it cannot fint netbsd, netbsd.gz, vmunix, etc....
>How-To-Repeat:
I am doing a new install (not an upgrade).
I use a custom partition layout, 1949 MB in /, and 100 MB in swap.
I extract all the sets (full) [I use the x*tgz files from 152.]
Along the way I get the message "all selected distribution sets extracted successfully"
Later I get the message "new root filesystem failed a basic sanity check"
If I exit the install system and "mount /dev/sd0a on /mnt", and do an
ls on /mnt, netbsd is a symbolic link to netbsd.GENERIC which does not
exist!
>Fix:
mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
cd /mnt
pax -zrpe -f /kern-GENERIC.tgz [or where ever this distfile is]
this will make it boot correctly
>Release-Note:
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