Subject: Re: Problems with 1.1 and A3000 (fwd)
To: Jose Alburquerque <joselito@interramp.com>
From: Tim Preston <tdp@demon.net>
List: amiga
Date: 01/18/1996 09:30:26
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> On Tue, 16 Jan 1996, Tim Preston wrote:
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> > I originally posted this to post-amiga but haven't got much back from
> > there.
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> > 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:
> > >
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> 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.
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Thanks, but that shouldn't be the problem, because of the way the scsi ids
are set on my system the main HD which contains my sys: and all my netbsd
partinitions is on sd1, sd0 is just an amiga only drive.
Like I said 1.0 works fine...
Any other ideas anyone, could the rev-9 buster be a problem with 1.1?
Cheers,
Tim.
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