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Re: scsi freezing problem with NetBSD current



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





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