Module Name: src
Committed By: gutteridge
Date: Wed Oct 20 23:30:30 UTC 2021
Modified Files:
src/distrib/notes/common: main
Log Message:
main: add note about amd64 now having a "bios" image, too
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cvs rdiff -u -r1.565 -r1.566 src/distrib/notes/common/main
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Modified files:
Index: src/distrib/notes/common/main
diff -u src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.565 src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.566
--- src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.565 Wed Oct 20 23:23:59 2021
+++ src/distrib/notes/common/main Wed Oct 20 23:30:30 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.565 2021/10/20 23:23:59 gutteridge Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.566 2021/10/20 23:30:30 gutteridge Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999-2012 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.
.\" All rights reserved.
@@ -265,6 +265,11 @@ Many commercial and freeware programs ar
.Pp
If installing via USB, you must first uncompress the USB image, which
is gzipped.
+.if \n[amd64] \{\
+Note the \*M architecture has two images, NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img and
+NetBSD-\*V-\*M-bios-install.img. The latter is intended for older
+hardware which is unable to boot using a hybrid MBR and GPT image.
+.\}
.Dl $ Ic "gunzip NetBSD-\*V-\*M-install.img.gz"
Next, write the USB image to a USB stick/drive.
Note that this will overwrite any existing data on the device that you
