On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Tim Preston wrote:

> I originally posted this to post-amiga but haven't got much back from
> there. 
> 
> Any ideas here?...
> 
> Forwarded message:
> > 
> > I seem to be having difficulties getting the INSTALL amiga kernel too start
> > up
> > 
> > I dump the upgrade file system to the swap partition from Intuition and
> > then load the new kernel with loadbsd -b netbsd. The system restarts and
> > detects all my hardware fine, including the HDs and then asks me for the
> > device where the root file system is so I tell it 'sd1*' which should be
> > correct and the I get:
> > 

I'm not sure about this, but have you tried entering sd0* when system 
request for root device?  I'm not sure, but I think NetBSD uses sd0* to 
reffer to the swap partition.  Good luck.

-Jose

> > Cheers,
> > Tim.
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