Re: scsi freezing problem with NetBSD current

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

Just to see what blocker we might hit next, I tried running sysinst 
manually.  I was able to get up to the point where it should have started to 
format my drive, but I got a message about not being able to find 
/etc/disktab and the installer exited.  I checked /etc and in fact there's 
no disktab file.  I tried to create /etc/disktab but got a message that the 
filesystem is read-only.

My guess is that the bug is just that the filesystem is read-only when in 
previous versions of netbsd it was read-write.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
To: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: "David Brownlee" <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>; 
<port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: scsi freezing problem with NetBSD current


> It works!
>
> Now it gets up to the unterminated quoted string issue you had mentioned 
> previously.  Specifically, I get:
>
> init: trying /sbin/init
> -sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string
>
> David Ross
> dross%pobox.com@localhost
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
> To: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
> Cc: "David Brownlee" <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>; 
> <port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 10:47 AM
> Subject: Re: scsi freezing problem with NetBSD current
>
>
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:24 AM, David Ross <dross%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > Following up on that idea I had to use the 1.6.1 kernel and 1.6.1 
> > > sysinst to
> > > do the 4.0 install...  It doesn't work.  I was able to install/extract 
> > > all
> > > the sets, but the install wasn't able to set the password, and the
> > > bootloader froze on boot, seemingly before loading the kernel image.
> > >
> > > But this isn't such a surprise -- I wouldn't expect the 1.6.1 stuff to 
> > > be
> > > able to successfully install 4.0.
> > > The current blocker on the pure 4.0 install is the failure to 
> > > successfully
> > > load the sysinst floppy from md2a:
> > > http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=39850
> > >
> > > David Ross
> > > dross%pobox.com@localhost
> >
> > It seems, that adding brelse(bp, 0) in md_root..c to unbusy bp buffer 
> > after
> > biowait() fixes md2a device problems.
> >
> > Could you try current kernel with this patch:
> > http://koti.welho.com/tmakinen/atari/netbsd-current-atari-BOOT-20081103.gz
> >
> > --- md_root.c.orig      2008-11-03 21:32:43.000000000 +0200
> > +++ md_root.c   2008-11-03 23:27:11.000000000 +0200
> > @@ -247,6 +247,8 @@
> >                        printf("\n");
> >
> >                done = bp->b_bcount - bp->b_resid;
> > +               brelse(bp, 0);
> > +
> >                bytes_left   -= done;
> >                rsp->offset  += done;
> >                rsp->bufp    += done;
> > @@ -324,6 +326,8 @@
> >                        printf("\n");
> >
> >                done = bp->b_bcount - bp->b_resid;
> > +               brelse(bp, 0);
> > +
> >                nbyte        -= done;
> >                nread        += done;
> >                rsp->offset  += done;
> >
> > -Tuomo