Re: install/54582: sysinst cannot find disklabel on 9.0_BETA/x68k

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR install/54582; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/54582: sysinst cannot find disklabel on 9.0_BETA/x68k
Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 08:39:03 +0200

 On Sat, Sep 28, 2019 at 03:25:00AM +0000, isaki%pastel-flower.jp@localhost wrote:
 > x68k kernel has used Human68k partition if BSD partition is empty for
 > long time.  Human68k is X680x0's native OS.
 > But 9.0 sysinst only reads BSD disklabel directly on raw disk image
 > and does not fallback to MD partition like kernel does.
 
 The problem here is that sysinst needs to find out what kind of partioning
 scheme is used (and deal properly). We can either disable that test
 for x68k and always assume disklabel or the kernel emulation of it, or
 we can add Human68k partition support now as an alternative scheme (quite
 easily; will do that for amiga and apple partitioning schemes too).
 
 Is there a description of how Human68k partitions look on disk somewhere?
 
 Martin