Michiel Meijer wrote:
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> Well i'm about to give up on NetBSD.......
Please don't. I like to find out what the heck is wrong here. If everybody
running into this just gives up, it will never get solved!
> 
> I tried almost anything starting here :
> 
> first i installed netbsd-1.1 , the installation wasen't easy and there where
> some nasty bugs (scsi-bug and the bug where the computer hangsup when you
> adress modem2) so i tried compiling the 1.2 kernel, which time and again FAILED
> the compilation succeeded but when i started the kernel it could NOT find my
> root partition. Well than 1.2 was an official release so i thought lets juist
> totally reeinstall.
I really don't understand this. When the COMPAT_11 option is defined it *should*
work. Did you try 'aptck'?
> 
> So i printed out the installation manual got about all i needed and
> started...... and got the instbin bug i tried booting up with older V1.2
> miniroot disk (same error) and the 1.1 root disk (same error) at which point i
> thought the problem might be with the kernel. So i downloaded the GENERIC.gz
> kernel that seemed to work a bit better, well at least it said : Cool let get
> to it!... and than half hung ( shell escape with ^C worked still ). Than Kyle
This was with the 1.2 root-disk? If so, this gives an opportunity to do some
debugging.

> send me email and asked if i too was useing icd pro utilities, as u was i
> reformatted the disk using the atari software supplied by atari (shdriver.sys
> etc.) and installed shdriver.sys, tried again, same error. So i tried the older
> root floppies (hung up too) and the 1.1 floppies (couldn't find a root disk,
> logic because i haden't labeled the discs yet, it didn't say in the manual that
> i should......) Than i read the last mail from Leo Weppelman, and i tried to
Assigning partition id's *is* required for the 1.1 install *not* for the 1.2
install. The installation utility is completely rewritten for 1.2 this means
that using the 1.1 docs for the 1.2 installer is confusing by definition...
> boot the GENERIC.gz kernel (unpacked ofcourse) with options -wb and again the
> kernel hung itself up after Cool let's get started!...
> 
> Well i only see two solutions left, install using the v11 root disks or debug
> the V12 rootdisks (which i tried but than found out that it  was mounted
> readonly, and i didn't know how to change that, but i suspect that's what the
> -w does) .... now where are the ed manual's
Mount root writable is easy:
	mount -u /
This is from memory, because I can't reply to mail and be in the miniroot
at the same time :-(

If you can read/write mail & try the installer at the same time, drop me
a mail with a CC to leo@wau.mis.ah.nl, maybe we can think something out without
the large mailing-list timeouts. I'll be on the air for the next 2 hours at
least.

I am *very* interested in fixing this mess!

Leo.