RE: Problems while booting NetBSD 1.5.1

[Michael Böhnisch <billy%o4all.de@localhost>]

Hi!

This looks very much like the behaviour I had long time ago with 1.3, in
a very similar hardware environment.

Back then, it was caused by a "too much RAM available" problem.

I was able to solve the problem by restricting the RAM for booting the
original kernel to 32MB. Then I configured and compiled my own kernel that
worked on my machine with the full RAM. Unfortunately I have no working
Amiga any more and too much time passed to correctly remember the
configuration parameter. It was something like "VM_KERNEL_PAGES" and
I had to boost it to 8 from the original value 4 to make it work.

Maybe if you scan for my name in the NetBSD mailing list archive you
will find a better description of the problem and how I circumvented
it.


Yours,

   Michael Böhnisch,

   Senior Software Developer,
   O4All Object Databases GmbH,
   Paderborn, Germany.


-----Original Message-----
From: port-amiga-owner%netbsd.org@localhost 
[mailto:port-amiga-owner%netbsd.org@localhost]On
Behalf Of Thomas-Peter Klug
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 12:16 PM
To: port-amiga%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Problems while booting NetBSD 1.5.1



Hi, I need your advice !

Using A4000D, CSPPC 604 with 68060 (original DCE), 128 MB, SCSI2-HDD chained
to CSPPC.

After transferring MINIROOT.FS (xstreamtodev) to prepared partition SWAP:
sitting on the 2 GB SCS2-harddisk and rebboting NetBSD 1.5.1 initializes,
recognizes all builtin hardware correctly, scanning all available drives
correctly, and then hangs with the message "4 views configured" and a
blinking cursor.

Does anybody know what I've done wrong, maybe some settings in
CSPPC-Bootmenue or something else ?

Any help welcome...


Mit freundlichen Grüßen,

Thomas-Peter Klug [HonestJohn]
thomas-peter.klug%db.com@localhost, thomas-peter.klug%debitel.net@localhost
A4000T/68060/50MHz/PPC604/200MHz
- OS3.9/PIV*Concierto*Paloma*Pablo
- 128MB/P96v2.0
<*>>>24.07.2001, 11:17:00<<<*>

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