> So an MBR with partition 1 is NetBDS, starting at ? and for 25G. > Presumably you made this with fdisk on linux. > > Then a NetBSD disklabel in that partition that you actually wrote?
I do not write the disklabel. Sector 1 of the netbsd partition has all zeroes. Regarding the loading netbsd kernel this is not a problem: it can see fictious wd0e. > Then you probably ran Linux's newfs_ext2fs? On what disk name, which > corresponds to what? mkfs.ext2 -O^dir_index /dev/sda1 I also tried revision 0 of ext2 btw mkfs.ext2 -r0 /dev/sda1 but netbsd now supports some features -- maybe even dir_index, but I get another big fat error when that is enabled: I enter the debugger with issues about mtree. > This is what I mean by really explaining what you did. Ok this might be long so here's the full process http://pub.nethence.com/bsd/malabar > Overall, I suspect the best path is to crossbuild netbsd and use the > netbsd tools under linux to make a netbsd install that is normal. > > The other path is to really understand how ext2fs is laid out and boot > blocks, and also the issue about the differences in linux/netbsd ext2fs, > and fix all of that. That's clear
