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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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