On 5/29/2025 5:20 PM, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: > On 5/29/2025 3:23 PM, Manuel Bouyer wrote: >> On Thu, May 29, 2025 at 03:01:50PM -0400, Chuck Zmudzinski wrote: >>> [...] >>> When I pass bootdev=dk12 in boot.cfg, the bootloader strangely tries dk1 as >>> root >>> (which is wrong) and correctly detects dk11 as the dump device. But it never >>> gives me the chance to enter the correct root device and instead tries to >>> load >>> init which of course it cannot find the NetBSD init on dk1 because dk1 is >>> not >>> the correct NetBSD root device. In fact on this box a Linux distro is >>> installed >>> on dk1, as evidenced by the filesystem type detected on dk1: ext2fs. >> >> Hum this could be a bug is the boot argiment parsing. I don't have more than >> 9 partitions on my disks and root=dkX works in my case.
So I just noticed you said root=dkX works in your case. The Wiki suggests that root=dkX is an outdated, old form that is deprecated, so I never tried it and I only tried bootdev=dkX. So, does bootdev=dkX also work in your case? Does the code really distinguish between root=dkX and bootdev=dkX?
