In article <[email protected]>, William A. Mahaffey III <[email protected]> wrote: >On 06/25/15 12:30, Christos Zoulas wrote: >> In article <[email protected]>, >> William A. Mahaffey III <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Everything looked OK w/ df & install proceeded & finished OK. Whassup >>> here ? TIA for any pointers & have a good one. >> Are you sure your root is ffsv2 and not ffsv1? Why is the a partition >> offset 2048? >> >> christos > > >Not sure about either. Disklabel thinks the slice is RAID under the >RAID[0,1], & 4.2BSD on top off the RAID 'device'. I am definitely *not* >expert at the ins & outs of NetBSD disk setup, booting, etc. I mostly >followed the (previously attached) README file to set everything up, & >that's what was recommended there (*not* an ideal circumstance, I know, >but the best I could do). I thought ffsv2 had superceded v1 a while >back, but I could be mistaken. I also thought 4.2BSD was synonomous w/ >FFSv2, no ? What should the root filesystem be for the boot process to >work correctly ? Also, what should the offset of the root partition be ? >I took defaults when I fdisk'ed the drive (fdisk -iau0 wd[0,1]), as >instructed in the afore-mentioned README file. Thanks for your reply & >TIA for any new guidance & have a good one.
You need to tell newfs to generate ffsv2, by default it creates ffsv1. Why don't you install the ffsv1 boot blocks and see if that works. christos
