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Re: installboot on landisk



In article <20190621054742.GA19472%mail.duskware.de@localhost>,
Martin Husemann  <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>Hey folks,
>
>my recent sysinst changes broke installation on landisk.
>
>I am trying to fix it, but I don't understand how/why it worked before:
>
> - sysinst creates a MBR NetBSD partition starting at sector 32 (on my disk)
> - disklabel partition a starts at sector 32 too
> - sysinst runs: installboot /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootffs2
>   This causes a warning that the old MBR is ignored (likely all zeroes)
>
>AFAICT none of this changed due to my changes.
>
>But also it can not work, can't it?
>It should probably use /dev/rwd0d for the installboot invocation, as it
>patches code into the MBR (at sector 0 of the disk, not 32).
>

Are you running gxemul?

christos



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