Re: playing with bootxx_ext2fs

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

On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 03:18:10PM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote:
> > This is not how NetBSD normally does things. You could get away with
> > it by mounting wd0c as / later, but everything else (starting with
> > boot blocks) will be seriously confused and probably unable to find your
> > root partition.
> 
> Makes sense.  This points back to the question if phase 1 boostrap
> (bootxx) actually needs a disklabel (sector 1 of the partition) to finds
> its babies.

No, but they either use the GPT or the disklabel (neither available in
your setup) to find the NetBSD root partition and then look for /boot
inside that.

Martin