I have now committed this. I have tested various combinations of i386
and amd64 install and live images on USB sticks and qemu, but not the
amd64 UEFI install image nor other ports. If you are using the UEFI
install image or the pmax, sparc, sparc64, sun2, sun3, or vax live
images, now would be a
gson@ wrote:
> > OMIT_SWAPIMG was added to save time of dd'ing sd0root images
> > to memory sticks. wd0root images include swap partition for emulators.
>
> Thank you for the background. Omitting the swap area saves less than
> 10% of the time to dd the image (128 MB out of 1536 MB); if there ar
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 05:18:55PM +0200, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> > Since jmcneill's commit of src/lib/libutil/getfsspecname.c 1.5, NetBSD
> > supports the special string "ROOT." as an alias for the root device in
> > /etc/fstab. This can be used to avoid hard-codin
Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > The "build.sh live-image" target currently builds two live images each
> > for i386 and amd64, with names containing "-wd0root" and "-sd0root",
> > respectively. With the proposed change, these would become almost
> > identical, differing only in size and the OMIT_SWAPIMG
On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 05:18:55PM +0200, Andreas Gustafsson wrote:
> Since jmcneill's commit of src/lib/libutil/getfsspecname.c 1.5, NetBSD
> supports the special string "ROOT." as an alias for the root device in
> /etc/fstab. This can be used to avoid hard-coding the device name of
> the root di
> The question is, is there any reason to keep the existing machinery
> for specifying a fixed device name via the BOOTDISK make variable?
The only reason is there was no way to specify boot device independent
format in fstab(5) when I wrote the bootimage support.
(PR/45153 and PR/45155, back in 2
Hi all,
Since jmcneill's commit of src/lib/libutil/getfsspecname.c 1.5, NetBSD
supports the special string "ROOT." as an alias for the root device in
/etc/fstab. This can be used to avoid hard-coding the device name of
the root disk on bootable disk images, allowing a single image to be
booted fr
