On Friday, July 8th, 2022 at 12:31 AM, RVP <r...@sdf.org> wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2022, br0nko wrote: > > > bash-5.1# vndconfig vnd0 /home/phil/alix-netbsd.9.2.img > > bash-5.1# fdisk -vv /dev/rvnd0 > > installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 > > > Is rsd0a where you copied /usr/mdec/boot, and dies rsd0a start at the > same sector as rsd0c (the NetBSD slice)? A disklabel output would > be useful... > > -RVP
The mkimage script is taking care of copying the mdec/boot I think, here's from an image build from current tree: bash-5.1# vndconfig vnd0 example-amd64-image.img bash-5.1# fdisk -vv /dev/rvnd0 Disk: /dev/rvnd0 NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: cylinders: 1157, heads: 64, sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder) total sectors: 2369536, bytes/sector: 512 BIOS disk geometry: cylinders: 148, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder) total sectors: 2369536 Partitions aligned to 2048 sector boundaries, offset 63 Partition table: 0: NetBSD (sysid 169) start 63, size 2312129 (1129 MB, Cyls 0/1/1-143/236/29), Active beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1 end: cylinder 143, head 236, sector 29 Information from PBR: Not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00) Not bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000) 1: <UNUSED> (sysid 0) start 0, size 0 beg: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0 end: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0 2: <UNUSED> (sysid 0) start 0, size 0 beg: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0 end: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0 3: <UNUSED> (sysid 0) start 0, size 0 beg: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0 end: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0 First active partition: 0 Drive serial number: 0 (0x00000000) bash-5.1# disklabel /dev/rvnd0 # /dev/rvnd0: type: SCSI disk: STORAGE DEVICE label: fictitious flags: removable sectors/track: 32 tracks/cylinder: 64 sectors/cylinder: 2048 cylinders: 1157 total sectors: 2369536 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs] a: 2369473 63 4.2BSD 0 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 1156) c: 2312129 63 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0*- 1128) d: 2369536 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 1156) bash-5.1# mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt bash-5.1# ls /mnt .cshrc altroot boot dev lib libexec netbsd rescue sbin tmp var .profile bin boot.cfg etc libdata mnt proc root stand usr bash-5.1# md5 /mnt/boot MD5 (/mnt/boot) = 9d721d7c85264b66deff2d8472370870 bash-5.1# md5 /usr/mdec/boot MD5 (/usr/mdec/boot) = 9d721d7c85264b66deff2d8472370870 bash-5.1# cat /mnt/boot.cfg menu=Boot normally:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot menu=Boot single user:rndseed /var/db/entropy-file;boot -s menu=Drop to boot prompt:prompt default=1 timeout=5 clear=1 bash-5.1# head /mnt/etc/release NetBSD 9.99.98/amd64 Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. br0nko