On Wed, Dec 13, 2023 at 01:11:05PM +0000, Liam Proven wrote:
I use this excellent multiboot tool instead of writing USB sticks. It
saves me hours.
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
NetBSD 9.3 and 10 are both throwing errors saying they can't locate /boot.
Is it just me or my machine?
I never heard of it, but what image did you copy to the drive ?
I looked at the WEB page and this quote from the page indicates
to me it will not correctly write the image to the USB Drive:
After the installation is complete, the USB drive will be
divided into 2 partitions. The 1st partition was formated with
exFAT filesystem
FWIW, after I dd(1) an amd64 install image to a USB, this is
some info from disklabel(8) and fdisk(8). I have had no issues
booting from this USB.
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
a: 5117952 2048 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 1 - 2499)
c: 5117952 2048 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 1 - 2499)
d: 5120000 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 2499)
And this is some info from fdisk(8):
Partition table:
0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
start 2048, size 5117952 (2499 MB, Cyls 0-318/179/53), Active
1: <UNUSED>
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>
Bootselector disabled.
First active partition: 0
Drive serial number: 0 (0x00000000)
