pierre-philipp braun <pbr...@nethence.com> writes: >> 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.
It is irregular to not have a disklabel on the netbsd system disk. I don't mean wrong, and I don't mean can't work. But it is not normal. The more you stray from normal, the greater the likelihood of trouble. >> 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. It should be possible to figure out ext2 compat issues locally, and separate remote install issues from that. > Ok this might be long so here's the full process > > http://pub.nethence.com/bsd/malabar It is long but it really helps out people trying to help you.