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: Mon, 1 Aug 2016 00:16:24 +0000

 On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 08:20:00PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  >  On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 08:10:00PM +0000, David Holland wrote:
  >  >  Can you file a separate PR on the nouveau problem?
  >  
  >  That is the only problem here, but I think we already have a PR about
  >  that (this is a pretty new nvidia card, so firmware WILL not be available).
 
 All I see at the moment is 50804 and 51091, neither of which really
 seems to cover it.
 
  >  We need a way to gracefully fail early.
 
 Yes. Something like the patch in 50808 might be a starting point, but
 ultimately if the drmkms console fails we ought to fall back to the
 traditional one.
 
 Maybe file a PR on that? I don't think one exists.
 
  >  >  Meanwhile, any idea why it isn't probing the root device correctly?
  >  >  That ought to be fixed.
  >  
  >  One of the disks was from an (old) raid set with forced autoroot, so
  >  the behaviour was just as expected.
 
 ah, I guess never mind that part then...
 
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 David A. Holland
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