Re: Booting from a USB disk

[Vincent DEFERT <20.100%defert.com@localhost>]

I've tried to install NetBSD onto another disk and it worked, so I made 
further investigations on the disk having the issue.
I turned out it had a remaining zfs_member signature somewhere, which I 
only saw after trying to recreate its partition table with fdisk under 
Linux.
Once cleaned, the installation worked fine and the only manual operation 
needed is to check /etc/fstab, and fix it if needed.

I have also installed NetBSD on a server (Dell R610) previously running 
FreeBSD.
The problem I had there is that NetBSD does not support EFI partition 
sizes greater than 128 MB.
In this case also, I had to wipe the partition table, but I could do it 
with NetBSD's gpt(8).

A conclusion of this episode is that NetBSD works well, but is bad at 
wiping disks. ;)
Fortunately, this is only needed at installation. :)

On 27/04/2020 09:14, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 08:53:16AM +0200, Vincent DEFERT wrote:
> > No, I haven't changed anything else and no modules are listed in /boot.cfg.
> >
> > Is there any chance it worked due to a side-effect of not loading modules?
> Yes, and I am currently out of ideas what went wrong.
>
> I wonder if we should make the libsa version of "panic" wait for a key
> press on the console, so you have a chance to fully read the message.
>
> Martin