On Sun, 22 May 1994 21:32:55 -0400 
 "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil> wrote:

 > > From: Terminator rAT <rat@CS.ORST.EDU>
 > > 
 > > On Sun, 22 May 1994 "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@zombie.ncsc.mil> wrote:
 > >  > Which binary snapshots? (Dates please)
 > > 
 > > The machine in question (coredump) is mine.  Thorpej and I are trying to 
 > > get NetBSD running on it.  I have tried all of the kernels from 
 > > ftp.eunet.ch with varying success.  All the kernels (with the exception 
 > > of 744.a3000) boot, run for a few moments, and then just hang.
 > > vmunix.744.a3000 hangs with a 'no suitable root' - odd, since the others 
 > > mount BSDR just fine...
 > 
 > The latest binaries/kernels that are available are the 940413 versions
 > that are available on sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu and its mirrors. I believe
 > that I uploaded a kernel after that date (the 25th?).
 > 
 > > Ideas?  Could this be caused by the sync problem?  'BSDR' is a 12 M 
 > > partition on a Conner CP340 (40M scsi)...
 > 
 > Are you running out of swap space? How big is your swap partition and
 > are you running without a limit on the mfs device (/tmp)?

Likely not.  I rewrote /etc/fstab to say:

/dev/sd1a	/	ufs	rw	1 1

Got that far before the machine hung :-)  (I think it's a 'sync' problem, 
but rAT can't find binpatch anywhere...:-( )


 > 
 > -SR

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