Subject: Re: install/37521: qemu install from NetBSD-current install floppiesfails
To: None <install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@netbsd.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/12/2007 11:45:05
The following reply was made to PR install/37521; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stephen Borrill <sborrill@netbsd.org>
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: gson@gson.org, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: install/37521: qemu install from NetBSD-current install floppiesfails
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:45:06 +0000

 Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
 > gson@gson.org wrote:
 > 
 >> Adding a prompt to reinsert disk 1 before the boot prompt would be a
 >> possible fix, but not a very good one since it would mean the user
 >> has to perform a total of four floppy insertions instead of two.
 > 
 > The possible fix is to disable boot.cfg support
 > (which has been imported by Stephen Borrill)
 > if the target file system is a ustarfs.
 
 Yes, it would be best to use -DSMALL when building /boot for floppies. I
 suspect we are using the same /boot throughout (though I've not
 checked). Or as Izumi suggests, we detect the target file system type
 and return early from parsebootconf().
 
 -- 
 Dr. Stephen Borrill
 http://www.netbsd.org/~sborrill/