On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 07:22:46AM +0000, Antonio Bravo wrote:
> it could be nice to mention on the sparc page
> (http://netbsd.org/Ports/sparc), that an FFS2 root isn't bootable.
> People could spare much time when installing...

True - and sorry to hear you wasted time trying.

But the real error is that sysinst offers FFSv2 for the root partition
(and I think there is a PR about it, and maybe it even got fixed post-2.x)

Martin
P.S.: The other correct fix is to create ffsv2 bootblocks.