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[SOLVED] Can't get NetBSD off the ground (install woes)
I'm having a really tough time getting NetBSD installed. I consider myself an avid GNU/Linux user but I was interested in decentralising a bit due to potential issues and policy questions related to the Linux kernel (long story perhaps for another time).
Here is the partition layout I've been trying to implement with my install. This is in both MBR and UEFI cases. wd0 |_ / (80GB, FFS) |_ /boot/efi (2MB, msdos) |_ cgd (remainder) ____|_ swap (16GB) ____|_ /var (1GB) ____|_ /home (remainder) In the installer program I choose extended partitioning to set it up like this. I keep getting errors. (1) In the MBR case I tried leaving 1MB of free space from start of the disk to the start of / partition. The installer then installs without error but the system doesn't boot. I already set wd0 as bootable. (2) In the UEFI case (my preferred) I changed the partition layout to GPT and proceeded to mimic the layout above but I keep getting errors in the process when saving the layout. I get an immediate error after the first attempt at setting the crypto password. Is there some issue with using CGD and GPT?? Second where should the efi partition (formatted FAT) be mounted? I'm only guessing that it's /boot/efi. Last edited by BSD-user; 10th May 2018 at 11:19 PM. |
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I used this Arch wiki to setup Arch/OpenBSD gpt/efi
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...stem_Partition Prior to dual booting I found this OpenBSD guide that I think should work for NetBSD (?8.0RC1) that has an EFI bootloader entry. |
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I was using 8_RC1 and I believe the installer to be faulty. I reverted to 7.1.2 and carried out the same operations albeit using MBR and it has worked smoothly.
Now there is another snag. When I setup cgd in the installer it hasn't put the paramsfile in /etc/cgd/. So where is the params file for the cgd that I already created? |
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The UEFI that you get in the instal medium is just for the install medium. If you're going to setup a system then AFAIS you have to go via the MBR route. Otherwise it appears as if some random collection of errors repeatedly get thrown at you by sysinst.
After carrying out the partitioning in sysinst the params file resides in /tmp of the install medium fs. You have to manually copy these files to /targetroot/etc/cgd. sysinst skips this vital step. |
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I have now managed to get a basic system running with cgd barr the root partition.
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