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[src/trunk]: src/distrib/notes/common main: add note about amd64 now having a...
details: https://anonhg.NetBSD.org/src/rev/3f5205134233
branches: trunk
changeset: 1024371:3f5205134233
user: gutteridge <gutteridge%NetBSD.org@localhost>
date: Wed Oct 20 23:30:30 2021 +0000
description:
main: add note about amd64 now having a "bios" image, too
diffstat:
distrib/notes/common/main | 7 ++++++-
1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diffs (21 lines):
diff -r 544b60735768 -r 3f5205134233 distrib/notes/common/main
--- a/distrib/notes/common/main Wed Oct 20 23:23:59 2021 +0000
+++ b/distrib/notes/common/main Wed Oct 20 23:30:30 2021 +0000
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.565 2021/10/20 23:23:59 gutteridge Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.566 2021/10/20 23:30:30 gutteridge Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@
.Pp
If installing via USB, you must first uncompress the USB image, which
is gzipped.
+.if \n[amd64] \{\
+Note the \*M architecture has two images, NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img and
+NetBSD-\*V-\*M-bios-install.img. The latter is intended for older
+hardware which is unable to boot using a hybrid MBR and GPT image.
+.\}
.Dl $ Ic "gunzip NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img.gz"
Next, write the USB image to a USB stick/drive.
Note that this will overwrite any existing data on the device that you
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