On Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 17:59, John McCue <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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?
No, I got the same result. It boots the kernel, but then it drops to the boot: prompt - the kernel does not see the cd it has been booted from as a cd device - it sees the stick holding Ventoy and all the ISO files... > > 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) > -- ----
