Module Name: src
Committed By: martin
Date: Thu Nov 25 17:49:22 UTC 2021
Modified Files:
src/distrib/notes/common [netbsd-9]: main
Log Message:
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by gutteridge in ticket #1376):
distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.566
distrib/notes/common/main: revision 1.567
main: add note about amd64 now having a "bios" image, too
main: add .gz extension to .img references for consistency
To generate a diff of this commit:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.551.2.10 -r1.551.2.11 src/distrib/notes/common/main
Please note that diffs are not public domain; they are subject to the
copyright notices on the relevant files.
Modified files:
Index: src/distrib/notes/common/main
diff -u src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.551.2.10 src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.551.2.11
--- src/distrib/notes/common/main:1.551.2.10 Fri Oct 23 08:32:27 2020
+++ src/distrib/notes/common/main Thu Nov 25 17:49:22 2021
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.551.2.10 2020/10/23 08:32:27 martin Exp $
+.\" $NetBSD: main,v 1.551.2.11 2021/11/25 17:49:22 martin 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.gz
+and NetBSD-\*V-\*M-bios-install.img.gz. 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
