On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 06:07:36PM +0300, pierre-philipp braun wrote: > ## 63 vs 64 vs 2048 > > On NetBSD x86 we're still starting at 63. In my previous attempt, I used the > gnu/linux fdisk and cfdisk utilities with their modern defaults so the > partition was starting at sector 2048. While using `fdisk -c=dos` I could > create a partition starting at 63 (the default was indeed 64). > > I do not think this makes a big difference for my purpose of boot strapping > netbsd.
That depends on the size of disk (and maybe other details) you installing on and whether you manually run fdisk or use sysinst. > ## /boot supports ext2fs? > > > I am unclear on which filesystems /boot can handle, other than > > ffs1/ffs2. Surely that includes ext2fs and fat32, or we'd have > > /boot-foo for them and I'd have heard about it. src/sys/arch/i386/stand/boot/Makefile.boot says: CPPFLAGS+= -DSUPPORT_CD9660 CPPFLAGS+= -DSUPPORT_USTARFS CPPFLAGS+= -DSUPPORT_DOSFS CPPFLAGS+= -DSUPPORT_EXT2FS so I'd say it should support ext2fs just fine. You could compile a boot with -DEXT2FS_DEBUG and see if that gives you more information. Martin
