On Mon, Apr 05, 2021 at 08:55:28PM +0200, Matthias Petermann wrote: > I recently set up a NetBSD 9.1 for my NAS with BIOS boot in the same way. My > problem was that both the installer USB stick and the target USB stick for > the installation were connected at the same time during the installation > (logical ;-)). During the installation, the target USB stick was detected as > unit sd1, and the installer as sd0. When booting without the installer after > the installation, the target USB stick then takes the place of the installer > USB stick and becomes sd0 itself. As a result, the root filesystem could not > be mounted because the entry in fstab was still set to sd1. Since then I > mount the target partition again r/w before the first reboot and correct the > fstab if necessary. I don't know if this helps you. As partitioning scheme I > used disklabel. In this case at least the bootloader was installed. I did > not try with GPT.
Thanks. I might face this issue as well. But I think that comes into picture after boot. The installer did not offer bootcode transfer (forgot what wording it exactly used to use). So the stick is not booting. Once I go past this I'll change sd1 to sd0 in fstab. -- Mayuresh