Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-20 Thread Jason Mitchell
>> On Aug 20, 2019, at 9:47 PM, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:31:00PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: >> >> I'm wondering: was there any preparation of the flash drive >> that should have been done before dd'ing the install-image.img >> onto it? Formatting? Filesystem?

Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 09:31:00PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I'm wondering: was there any preparation of the flash drive > that should have been done before dd'ing the install-image.img > onto it? Formatting? Filesystem? MBR? The above bit of speculation was inspired by this wiki article:

Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:18:59PM -0400, Ron Georgia wrote: > ...you find a section labeled "Booting the install system from > USB." Section 2.2.6.1 to be exact. Once the image is > downloaded, from the command line prompt: Ach! Dawn breaks over Narrangansett Bay! > What platform are you

Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-20 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 20 Aug 2019 17:59:56 -0400 From:Bob Bernstein Message-ID: <20190820215955.GA819@nebby.localdomain> | Trying 'mount /dev/sd1' /mnt yielded "bad superblock." (Pretty | sure; I am typing these results from memory.) It is pretending to be a CD (image

Re: Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-20 Thread Ron Georgia
I would grab either 9BETA image or current. Get the image that ends with .img.gz. For example: http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/images/NetBSD-9.0_BETA-amd64-install.img.gz Then, according to the NetBSD guide (page 5 if you printed out all 365 pages, as I did) you find

Write an install image to a flash drive?

2019-08-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
I want to use a flash drive instead of a CD to upgrade from an old 'current' to our latest. This is being done on an ancient emachine amd64: NetBSD nebby 8.99.35 NetBSD 8.99.35 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Mar 13 06:27:34 UTC 2019 mkre...@mkrepro.netbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC amd64

Re: wd pb: atactl standby, smart and errors

2019-08-20 Thread Hauke Fath
On 2019-08-20 12:52, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: BTW, I read in the PR that the diff for 7.x was applied to 8.x but didn't get to current? It did, but apparently other changes to the driver undid its effect. Cheerio, hauke -- The ASCII Ribbon CampaignHauke Fath ()

Re: wd pb: atactl standby, smart and errors

2019-08-20 Thread tlaronde
On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 11:01:55AM +0200, Hauke Fath wrote: > On 2019-08-20 10:37, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > >Reported problems are like this: > > > >[ 51498.493926] wd0c: error reading fsbn 8740546 of 8740546-8740577 (wd0 > >bn 8740546; cn 8671 tn 2 sn 52), xfer 12f0, retry 0 > >[

Re: wd pb: atactl standby, smart and errors

2019-08-20 Thread Hauke Fath
On 2019-08-20 10:37, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: Reported problems are like this: [ 51498.493926] wd0c: error reading fsbn 8740546 of 8740546-8740577 (wd0 bn 8740546; cn 8671 tn 2 sn 52), xfer 12f0, retry 0 [ 51498.503930] wd0: (uncorrectable data error) Sounds familiar - see kern/49457...

wd pb: atactl standby, smart and errors

2019-08-20 Thread tlaronde
Hello, Node: NetBSD 9.99.7/evbarm (earmv7hf, a20-olinuxino-lime2) disk: wd0: wd0: drive supports 16-sector PIO transfers, LBA48 addressing wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133), WRITE DMA FUA, NCQ (32 tags) w/PRIO wd0(ahcisata0:0:0): using PIO mode 4,