Subject: Help on installation & starting
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Salvatore Salamone <saausa@wurley.apana.org.au>
List: amiga
Date: 03/08/1996 10:41:59
Hi...
I'm been having problems in starting & install NetBSD 1.1 on the Amiga,
but first I will discuss my system:
A1200
68030 + MMU
4MB MEM
OS3.0
WB3.1
IDE 2.5 " SEAGATE ST9546A 515MB HD
I followed the instructions "INSTALL", I partion my drive to these:
BSD0 =3D root =3D> 15M
BSD1 =3D swap =3D> 22M
BSD2 =3D usr =3D> 65M
BSD3 =3D local =3D> 50M
the rest are for the Normal Amiga (dh0:,dh1:).
I wasn't too sure about mask & masktransfer on HDToolBox if I should
change to 0x0, but I left it alone.
Next I done that xstreamtodev to copy inst-11.fs on swap drive
eg xstreamtodev --input=3Dinst-11.fs --rdb-name=3DBSD1
it stopped at 17% , is that ok??
Next I issued the command 'loadbsd -b netbsd' on my shell, all the sudden
I get a black screen nothing was working, so I tried the other
'loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd' and still I got a black screen. So it made me
think I just though some of the programs (from WBStartup & MCP) &
patches (newicons,patchwpa8, ipatch, etc) I was running in the background
was causing the problem so I didn't want to disable the patches & boot up
prgs so I stop (Ctrl-D) startup-sequence half way giving a shell prompt
only. I tried here 'loadbsd -b netbsd' finally it worked it gave me a
welcome msg (doesn't look like a welcome msg just bunch of garbage I
couldn't understand).
Strange but shouldn't I get a pathname of a shell like 'INSTALL' doc say?
Well it didn't ask me so it kept on going until it ask me about
installation so I put 'y'. Next it asked me which device to use for root
so I put 'sd0' like the doc said. Suddenly things happen I noticed in a
quick glance errors such as 'unknowed dostype 0x4d534800 marking used'
'cannot mount root'
and then it was counting "4 3 2 1 succeded" and suddenly
BOOM CRASH RESET (It didn't say that really), my machine resets.
I tried again the same thing happens, I tried also the other way
'loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd' and still the same problem.
Thats it this where I got stuck now I don't know what to do next.
Sal
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