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
>