I’ve got a stock HP6200 MT that I’m using. It has Windows-10 on WD0 and I’ve been trying to install NetBSD on WD1. NetBSD-9.2 installs on WD1 and runs just fine on this system, but I’ve run into an interesting problem trying to install either 9.99.92 or 9.99.93. I’ve been installing from an installation image that I copied onto a USB stick. The installation kernels boot and run just fine from the USB stick and the installations seem to go OK putting NetBSD onto WD1.
(One issue with the install of 9.99.93 is that the installer can’t set the root password. It appears there’s a stray file, /etc/ptmp, that blocks setting the password and deleting it resolves the problem.) The real issue with both 92 and 93 is that the installed systems fail to boot and give and error that there’s no boot device specified. Installing these systems onto a USB disk or even moving WD1 to USB using a dongle allows the systems to boot. It seems that the boot code gets started off the disk and is able to present me with the standard boot options (single or multi-user), but after loading the kernel it can’t seem to find the disk when installed as WD1. This clearly doesn’t happen with NetBSD-9.2 so I’m assuming there’s some sort of regression in disk handling that is now present in 92 and 93. I’m using the standard GENERIC kernels from the installation images and at this point not building my own kernels. Booting NetBSD-9.2 works for both BIOS and UEFI booting; neither work for 92 and 93 all giving the same results of “no boot device”. Any ideas? Thanks, -bob
