You guessed right. Apparently I don't understand the build process as well as I thought. I skipped the userland + release steps, since there hadn't been any -stable patches against those with 5.2.
Sorry for the noise. --david On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 8:51 AM, Miod Vallat <m...@online.fr> wrote: >> I seem to be unable to boot from locally-compiled bsd.rd (i386). I >> have triple-checked everything I'm doing against release(8) >> instructions and tried both 5.2 -stable and release CVS tags; the >> result is the same: "panic: cannot open disk, 0x1100/0x2f02, error 22" > > Let me guess. You have compiled RAMDISK, copied that to bsd.rd, and > tried to boot it, didn't you? > > Compiling RAMDISK is not enough for it to work. You need to put a > filesystem in it afterwards - this is what the machinery within > src/distrib/ does. > > Miod
