Subject: Re: problem w/ booting off RaQ2
To: Robert Thille <rthille@gte.net>
From: Thang T. Mai <thang@unixcircle.org>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 04/18/2002 15:06:32
After browsing the lists, I reboot the box with:

   Cobalt: bfd /boot/vmlinux.gz -a

and type in "wd0a" for root, "wd0b" for swap, then "ffs"
when it prompted.

Now I can cook the new kernel with:

      config   netbsd   root on wd0 type ffs

Thanks all.
 

On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Robert Thille wrote:

> 
> On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 01:42  PM, Thang T. Mai wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I'm having problem w/ booting off NetBSD on my RaQ2.
> > Below are output from fdisk and disklabel.
> >
> 
> > # fdisk wd0
> > NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
> > cylinders: 13330 heads: 15 sectors/track: 63 (945 sectors/cylinder)
> >
> > BIOS disk geometry:
> > cylinders: 13330 heads: 15 sectors/track: 63 (945 sectors/cylinder)
> >
> > Partition table:
> > 0: sysid 131 (Linux native)
> >     start 1, size 1024379 (500 MB), flag 0x0
> >         beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  2
> >         end: cylinder 1023, head  14, sector 63
> > 1: sysid 130 (Linux swap or Prime or Solaris)
> >     start 1024380, size 262710 (128 MB), flag 0x0
> >         beg: cylinder 1023, head  14, sector 63
> >         end: cylinder 1023, head  14, sector 63
> > 2: sysid 131 (Linux native)
> >     start 1287090, size 410130 (200 MB), flag 0x0
> >         beg: cylinder 1023, head  14, sector 63
> >         end: cylinder 1023, head  14, sector 63
> > 3: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
> >     start 1697220, size 10899630 (5322 MB), flag 0x0
> >         beg: cylinder  772, head   0, sector  1
> >         end: cylinder   17, head  14, sector 63
> >
> >
> > 8 partitions:
> > #        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> >   a: 10899630  1697220     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1796 -
> > 13329)
> >   d: 12596850        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
> > 13329)
> >   e:  1024379        1 Linux Ext2        0     0         # (Cyl.    0*-
> > 1083)
> >   f:   262710  1024380       swap                        # (Cyl. 1084 -
> > 1361)
> >   g:   410130  1287090 Linux Ext2        0     0         # (Cyl. 1362 -
> > 1795)
> > #
> >
> I'm not sure if this is it, but I've got wd0b as swap, and I've got a 
> wd0c which covers just the NetBSD slice.
> 
> Robert
>