Re: install/54996: sysinst on arm messes up partitioning install disk (NetBSD 9 and later)

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

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From: Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/54996: sysinst on arm messes up partitioning install
 disk (NetBSD 9 and later)
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2020 13:38:51 +0100

 On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 06:15:00PM +0000, dtyson%anduin.org.uk@localhost wrote:
 > 
 >      ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 >      ? The disk seems not to have been partitioned before. Please select    ?
 >      ? a partitioning scheme from the available options below.              ?
 >      ?                                                                      ?
 >      ?>a: BSD disklabel                                                     ?
 >      ? b: Master Boot Record (MBR)                                          ?
 >      ? x: Exit                                                              ?
 >      ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 
 This is the first bug (which I can not reproduce locally). There should be
 no option "BSD disklabel" here. I get a GPT option there instead, but I am
 not sure that is correct either - can RPi firmware boot from a GPT disk?
 
 Could you maybe retest (upto this point) with a newer image, just to make
 sure it still offers disklabel as primary partitioning scheme?
 
 Can you please also report the full disk geometry for that target disk?
 That makes it easier to reproduce the (later) errors with partition details.
 
 Thanks!
 
 Martin