Re: Installer Image file format for current

["David H. Gutteridge" <david%gutteridge.ca@localhost>]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2021 at 22:19:18 +0000, Chris Pinnock wrote:
> I’ve probably missed something here, but I’m trying to boot NetBSD 
> current on the Qemu emulator. (9.0 will boot reliably. 9.1 panics. 
> Wanted to see what current does). Looks like the image >available on 
> CDN is an pure ISO which won’t boot.
>
> chris@YeOldeComputer% file NetBSD-9.99.80-macppc.iso
> NetBSD-9.99.80-macppc.iso: ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 
> ’NETBSD_99980'
>
> vs.
> chris@YeOldeComputer% file NetBSD-9.0-macppc.iso
> NetBSD-9.0-macppc.iso: DOS/MBR boot sector
>
> Does that auto build generate a bootable image normally or do I need to 
> look at alternative ways of booting?

Hi Chris,

The short answer is that only formal releases have hybrid bootable
images. There was a PR about this a while ago (port-macppc/54537), and
I'd added some details in one spot in the installation instructions:

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/distrib/notes/macppc/install.diff?r1=1.40&r2=1.41&only_with_tag=MAIN&f=h

It may be these details are best added in more places.

Regards,

Dave