Re: kern/51362: installing from USB sticks is not possible

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/51362; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: kern/51362: installing from USB sticks is not possible
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2016 20:07:14 +0000

 On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 07:10:00PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 06:40:00PM +0000, martin%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
  >> with boot -a (because I have a broke raid config that I want to recover)
  >> failed. After forcing root to sd0a init dies with "no /dev/console".
  >  
  > OK, being able to read clearly helps: it is not /dev/console that is missing
  > but drmkms failing (cnopen: no console device).
  >  
  > I added
  >  
  > userconf=disable nouveau*
  > userconf=disable nouveaufb*
  >  
  > to the /boot.cfg file on the usb stick and then was able to get into
  > the installer.
 
 Can you file a separate PR on the nouveau problem?
 
 Meanwhile, any idea why it isn't probing the root device correctly?
 That ought to be fixed.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost