On an amd64 laptop that primarily runs Void Linux I have a partition reserved for NetBSD. I have been trying to install NetBSD 9.x, later 10 Beta and now 10.1 on this partition, though have not succeeded.
I have reported the weird behavior of the installer in some past threads - which is a different topic than this thread. As a workaround I attempted to install on this partition, by passing it as a disk to qemu running on Void Linux - something like: .. -drive file=/dev/sda6,format=raw -cdrom NetBSD-10.1-amd64.iso .. I know, netbsd installer is possibly not designed for this sort of usage, though I am trying this more as a last resort. It appeared to install fine. The laptop has uefi boot and I have boot.cfg and bootx64.efi in /boot/efi/EFI/netbsd/ I do get a boot menu when this boot option is selected. However the boot doesn't succeed. On dropping to boot prompt I checked 'ls hd0f:' and it does show NetBSD file system. However on boot hd0f:netbsd (or hd0f:) it says 'inappropriate filetype or format' when booting What is likely to be wrong here? An aside: after the installation, the host Void Linux is working though, something seems to have changed in its disk layout, since now I get "Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary." on running fdisk -l, which I wasn't get before. -- Mayuresh
