On Thu, 7 Mar 1996, Salvatore Salamone wrote:

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> Hi...
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> I'm been having problems in starting & install NetBSD 1.1 on the Amiga,
> but first I will discuss my system:
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>                               A1200
>                               68030 + MMU
>                               4MB MEM
>                               OS3.0
>                               WB3.1
>                               IDE 2.5 " SEAGATE ST9546A 515MB HD
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> I followed the instructions "INSTALL", I partion my drive to these:
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>                               BSD0 =3D root    =3D> 15M
>                               BSD1 =3D swap    =3D> 22M
>                               BSD2 =3D usr     =3D> 65M
>                               BSD3 =3D local   =3D> 50M
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> 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??
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> 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?
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> 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.
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> Sal
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I gonna install it in a second but first would like to ask u
if its possible to boot in multiscan mode=20
i got vga monitor > 30khz so the DBLPAL and DBLNTSC modes doesnt work
when i try loadbsd -A netbsd

How can i boot in multiscan >30khz ?????????
and if X-Server open its screen in multiscan ?