Subject: NetBSD 1.3_ALPHA Inst. boot
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@tripnet.se>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/05/1997 04:46:46
I have just tried (multiple times) to install NetBSD on a HP9000/400 Apollo=
,
with no luck... I can make the disklabel, copy the miniroot to the disk,
and boot the miniroot... But it can't find the FS, saying:

----- s n i p p -----
sd0 at oscsi0 targ 0 lun 0: <HP, 2213A, C023>
sd0: 1457 cylinders, 16 heads, 1296512 blocks, 512 bytes/block
[....]
boot device: sd0
root on sd0b dumps on sd0b
no file system for sd0 (dev 0x401)
cannot mount root, error =3D 79
----- s n i p p -----

I have been using Linux on PC/Amiga/Atari/Alpha for years (as admin/devel),
but NetBSD is a little different... :)

Partitioning the HD was _VERY_ (!!!!) ancuard, having to enter the exact
cylinder and everything...

I would very much apreciate help on this subject, since I do not have a wor=
king
HP-UX kernel for my machine, and I would very much like to learn UN*X the
BSD way...

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