the man page for gpt on NetBSD 8.0_STABLE in the example section shows: Booting from GPT on an BIOS system. This creates a bootable partition that can be manually installed to. Note that sysinst(8) does not yet properly support this setup.
xotica# gpt create wd1 xotica# gpt add -b 1024 -l bootroot -t ffs -s 1g wd1 /dev/rwd1: Partition 1 added: 49f48d5a-b10e-11dc-b99b-0019d1879648 1024 2097152 xotica ~# dmesg | tail -2 wd1: GPT GUID: 660e0630-0a3f-47c0-bc52-c88bcec79392 dk0 at wd1: "bootroot", 2097152 blocks at 1024, type: ffs xotica# gpt biosboot -L bootroot wd1 => xotica# newfs dk0 xotica# installboot /dev/rdk0 /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1 xotica# mount /dev/dk0 /mnt xotica# cp /usr/mdec/boot /mnt On Feb 13, 2019, at 12:25 AM, John Nemeth <jnem...@cue.bc.ca> wrote: > On Feb 12, 7:03pm, Robert Nestor wrote: > } > } Somewhat related, but the man page on GPT in the example on how > } to set up a BIOS boot indicates that one should newfs dk?, not > } rdk?. A number of people have pointed out to me that I should > } be running newfs on rdk?, NOT dk?. This was probably the source > > What manpage? From what version of NetBSD? I just looked at > the manpage for gpt(8) on a NetBSD 7.1 system and a NetBSD -current > system, neither of them said anything about that. > > } of a lot of my problems, but in my defense I was just following > } the documentation. :-) > } > }-- End of excerpt from Robert Nestor