Hi,
I wanted to resurrect an old i386 alix box, and I did follow the guide to
create a custom image trough mkimage
(https://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-inst-media.html#chap-inst-media-creating-live-images).
I did first try on amd64 so that I can first test on my laptop. Build was
successful but when I boot the USB key, I'm stuck on primary bootstrap
("NetBSD/x86 ffsv1 Primary Bootstrap"), no error. However I can boot it from
grub (installed on the laptop hard-drive) , image is fully functional that way.
Here's what fdisk show:
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bash-5.1# vndconfig vnd0 /home/phil/alix-netbsd.9.2.img
bash-5.1# fdisk -vv /dev/rvnd0
Disk: /dev/rvnd0
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 765, heads: 64, sectors/track: 32 (2048 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 1568447, bytes/sector: 512
BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 98, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
total sectors: 1568447
Partitions aligned to 16065 sector boundaries, offset 63
Partition table:
0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
start 63, size 1568384 (766 MB, Cyls 0/1/1-97/160/62), Active
beg: cylinder 0, head 1, sector 1
end: cylinder 97, head 160, sector 62
Information from PBR:
Not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00)
Not bootable: Bad magic number (0x0000)
1: <UNUSED> (sysid 0)
start 0, size 0
beg: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0
end: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0
2: <UNUSED> (sysid 0)
start 0, size 0
beg: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0
end: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0
3: <UNUSED> (sysid 0)
start 0, size 0
beg: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0
end: cylinder 0, head 0, sector 0
First active partition: 0
Drive serial number: 0 (0x00000000)
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I did try to reinstall the primary bootstrap:
installboot -v -o timeout=5 /dev/rsd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
But it didn't fix the problem either.
I'm running out of ideas, I don't really see what I'm missing. Any help would
be highly appreciated.
Br0nko
