Subject: port-sgimips/17567: sgimips sysinst doesn't install NetBSD bootloader
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <rafal@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/11/2002 22:47:18
>Number:         17567
>Category:       port-sgimips
>Synopsis:       sgimips sysinst doesn't install NetBSD bootloader
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-sgimips-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 11 19:48:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Rafal Boni
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6_BETA4
>Organization:
...or lack thereof...
>Environment:
System: NetBSD fullhouse 1.6_BETA4 NetBSD 1.6_BETA4 (RAMDISK_INDY) #0: Tue Jul  9 23:47:13 EDT 2002     rafal@cyclops:/extra/sgimips/obj/sys/arch/sgimips/compile/RAMDISK_INDY sgimips
Architecture: mips
Machine: sgimips

>Description:
	The sgimips sysinst doesn't install the NetBSD bootloader/boot blocks
	into the volume header of the disk.  In the current state of things,
	neither the sgivol (sys/arch/sgimips/stand/sgivol) tool not the MI
	install boot are adequate for the purpose -- sgivol because it's
	interactive and asks for stuff like confirmation, and the MI
	installboot because there's no sgimips backend for it.

>How-To-Repeat:
	Install sgimips snapshot; not no bootblocks are installed on the
	disk.

>Fix:
	None provided.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: