Subject: Re: Sysinst won't install onto ld0 on NetBSD 4.0 Beta 2
To: David W. Rankin Jr. <drankin@bohemians.lexington.ky.us>
From: Todd Kover <kovert@omniscient.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/29/2007 11:35:46
 > > I'm installing NetBSD 4.0 Beta 2 onto a new-to-me Dell PowerEdge
 > > 2450.  It's got the RAID card (PERC 3/Si, aac0) installed, and
 > > I have confirmed that the install media can read and write to
 > > ld0 from the install media (fdisk, disklabel, and newfs all
 > > work). However, the installer won't see ld0 as a valid install
 > > disk. sysinst says "no valid disks".
 >
 > I'm running into the same problem with installign on ld0 with NetBSD
 > 4.0 BETA 2:

(for completeness, in case someone runs into this and is looking for an
answer)

I found the cause and submmited a pr with a patch to -current and
included a pullup request to 4.0.   One line fix.

pr#kern/36244

-Todd