Re: port-sparc/39728: [dM] sparc installboot unreasonably picky

[der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/39728; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: der Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-sparc/39728: [dM] sparc installboot unreasonably picky
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:44:47 -0400 (EDT)

 >>     installboot: The secondary bootstrap `mnt/boot' must be in /
 > The secandary bootstrap arg should be an absolute path in the
 > specified file system.
 
 ...oh!  Thank you.
 
 Okay then, it's just that the message is confusing.  I'll reprioritize
 the PR.
 
 This, I say mostly to get it into the PR: what I'd suggest (and
 implement, if I'm the one who ends up fixing it) is something like
 
        installboot: /mnt/boot: No such file or directory
        installboot: (Path must be relative to the filesystem root.)
 
 (where the "No such..." is actually obtained from strerror(ENOENT), for
 consistency).
 
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