Last night I managed to get my Riebl card working on 3.1.1! From the
sysinst filesystem I just drop to a shell and set it up with ifconfig.
I'm then able to connect to ftp.netbsd.org, etc. Fantastic.
On to the next challenge...
Everything seems to indicate that sysinst.fs is the way to go, and
prepare.fs / miniroot.fs are legacy. So I went to kick off an install
through sysinst and it was unable to partition the disk, giving me an
error that /etc/disktab could not be opened. This appears to be because
the / filesystem is read-only and the file does not exist, just as this
guy documented last December:
http://archives.devshed.com/forums/bsd-93/install-37470-could-not-open-etc-disktab-using-sysinst-fs-2388826.html
I have a hunch this may have something to do with the fact that
"mount_kernfs /kern /kern" doesn't do anything. Even if / is read-only,
it should be able to mount the kernel parameter namespace under /kern,
right?
Sometime in the next few days I'll jump back a few releases and see if I
can get to one where the / filesystem isn't read-only and/or mount_kernfs
works. Then I think I should be able to go through sysinst no problem.
David Ross
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Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:29 PM
To: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
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Subject: Re: Question on the images in /miniroot
Unfortunately the <Alt>-<LeftShift>-<F9> sequence doesn't do anything, at
least with the pre-built 4.0 BOOT kernel on netbsd.org.
But as it turns out, if I wait for a few minutes, NetBSD 4.0 actually
boots past the point where I had previously noted that it freezes. It
gets up until it prints this line:
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
At that point I left it for maybe 20 minutes and it didn't get any
further.
David Ross
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From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:28 AM
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Cc: <port-atari%NetBSD.org@localhost>; <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Subject: Re: Question on the images in /miniroot
As described above, the 4.0 kernel appears to have a bug. It's not
clear if
it's just my hardware, but I suspect this will happen on any TT030. As
described in my previous mail, the 4.0 kernel locks up on boot after
"kbd0
at mainbus0".
Can you get ddb(4) prompt at that point?
<Alt>-<LeftShift>-<F9> might invoke it as noted in ddb(4) man page.
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Izumi Tsutsui