acorn26 was moved to Tier III last week and unless someone steps forward it
will be removed sometime in Mid-October 2015.
To quote http://www.netbsd.org/ports/ :
“The reasons can range from lack of community interest to the hardware becoming
so rare that it is simply not available any more.
I had the occasion to reboot one of my shiny new Xen servers today for
the first time in a month and I found that it failed to boot because of
the appearance since the previous successful boot of a new dk(4)
attachment created for a GPT partition on another drive.
boot device: dk0
Yes, the command line (for i386, obviously) is
./build.sh -D/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/i386/destdir
-M/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/i386/obj -N2 -R/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/release
-T/home/sysbuild/Sysbuild/i386/tools -U -X/home/sysbuild/xsrc -j6 -mi386 -u
-x release iso-image
(I use pkgsrc/sysbuild).
wo...@planix.ca (Greg A. Woods) writes:
Am I missing something here that I could do to change the wedge
configuration to avoid this issue? Is it still so difficult to discover
which device the boot loader booted the kernel from on such a
semi-modern amd64 machine that the kernel can make such