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Why won the Installer utility recognize and mount my NetBSD partition?

April 26, 2017installer Mount NetBSD partition recognize utility

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Why won the Installer utility recognize and mount my NetBSD partition?

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Older versions of the Installer (and the NetBSD kernel) only check the first 8 partitions for NetBSD-style partitions. If you have a lot of partitions on your drive (including the partition map and driver partitions), it could be that your NetBSD partition falls beyond the first 8. So, the Installer won’t recognize it. Try re-ordering the partitions on your drive and see if that fixes the problem. I believe that more recent versions of the the kernel actually search the first 32 partitions, so be sure to upgrade your kernel to at least the 1.2 distribution version. If you do not wish to reorder most of your partitions, you can make sure that you have one partition low enough in your partition map to access it via the Installer, and then copyin any files you want to install on other partitions. From there, you can boot into NetBSD and unarchive the files directly into their partition(s). Keep in mind that NetBSD can only handle 8 total NetBSD partitions on a single disk (and only 5 of t

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Older versions of the Installer (and the NetBSD kernel) only check the first 8 partitions for NetBSD-style partitions. If you have a lot of partitions on your drive (including the partition map and driver partitions), it could be that your NetBSD partition falls beyond the first 8. So, the Installer won’t recognize it. Try re-ordering the partitions on your drive and see if that fixes the problem. I believe that more recent versions of the kernel actually search the first 32 partitions, so be sure to upgrade your kernel to at least the 1.2 distribution version. If you do not wish to reorder most of your partitions, you can make sure that you have one partition low enough in your partition map to access it via the Installer, and then copyin any files you want to install on other partitions. From there, you can boot into NetBSD and unarchive the files directly into their partition(s). Keep in mind that NetBSD can only handle 8 total NetBSD partitions on a single disk (and only 5 of these