Re: port-macppc/51160: fstab created during install references wd(4), kernel expect to mount dk(4)y

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

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From: mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-macppc/51160: fstab created during install references wd(4), kernel expect to mount dk(4)y
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 18:45:39 +0000 (UTC)

 martin%duskware.de@localhost (Martin Husemann) writes:
 
 >On Sun, May 22, 2016 at 09:25:01PM +0000, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
 >>  dmesg from 7.0 release
 >>  http://dmesgd.nycbug.org/index.cgi?do=view&id=2960
 
 >We have
 
 >options         DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER    # Automatically add dk(4) instances
 
 >in GENERIC, combined with apple's partion manager being used as on-disk format
 >for macppc boot disks will probably do it. I don't have that option in my
 >custom macppc kernel, so it didn't hit me.
 
 
 netbsd-7/macppc has
 
 DKWEDGE_AUTODISCOVER
 DKWEDGE_METHOD_GPT
 
 So only if you use a disk with GPT label you get wedges.
 
 netbsd-current/macppc also has
 
 DKWEDGE_METHOD_APPLE
 
 which creates wedges from apple's partition manager.
 
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