On Saturday 2017-04-01 08:35 +0200, Martin Husemann output: :On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 05:31:20PM +1100, Geoff Wing wrote: :> The system installed as an old MBR (+63 sector) system. :> It did not add any dk stuff for /etc/fstab. :> It did NOT leave room to add the dk stuff at the start of the hard drive, so :> you cannot do "dkscan_bsdlabel" stuff on it and add bootloaders. :> -current does not have lots of the DKWEDGE_METHOD_* stuff in it so you cannot :> boot a new kernel on it. :Sorry, but I fail to parse most of this. :You are talking about GPT, not dk(4) or something? :You can use dk(4) with MBR or any other on-disk format.
You can. Boot any -current GENERIC kernel without those options. Look at them fail to find all the dk(4) stuff (because it's installed with pre-dk(4) stuff) and fail to boot. :Not sure what you mean with new kernel or doing dkscan_bsdlabel/add :bootloaders. I'm not sure what you mean here. I presume you understand the purpose of dkscan_bsdlabel(8). I also presume you understand the commented out DKWEDGE_METHOD_* stuff. If you've never added dk wedge info onto the disk (e.g. during a 7.1 install) where do you think it will come from? :Maybe you can rephrase your question, there might be some assumptions in it :that better be spelled out explicitly. OK. Install NetBSD 7.1 (i386) from CD/USB. Put in -current. Fail. That's it.