Re: install/43012: sysinst doesn't detect correct cd/dvd drive

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

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> Datum: Thu,  5 Aug 2010 07:50:03 +0000 (UTC)
> Von: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> An: martin%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
> netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost
> Betreff: Re: install/43012: sysinst doesn\'t detect correct cd/dvd drive

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> From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
> To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
> Cc: 
> Subject: Re: install/43012: sysinst doesn't detect correct cd/dvd drive
> Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 09:46:09 +0200
> 
>  On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 06:20:04AM +0000, Christoph Egger wrote:
>  >  However on some machines where the CD can only
>  >  be mounted via cd?d (rather cd?a) sysinst fails
>  >  to detect the CD/DVD.
>  
>  Please explain and give more details why you would need to
>  mount the raw partition.
> 
>  Background: this should not be a proerpty of the machine,
>  but of the image you run sysinst from - or it would point
>  to a bug in generation of the default disk label,

This might be the case.

set_geometry() in
sys/arch/i386/stand/lib/biosdisk_ll.c

always returns 0 but the callers don't expect this behaviour.

>  which is partly arch dependend (i.e. sparc64 and sgimips
>  do some magic, but those CDs just work).

Christoph