Subject: Failure to boot
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Edward Seth Miller <esmiller@engin.umich.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/08/1997 17:54:26
Hello again...It's me, the guy with the uncooperative IIci. (That's a
IIci with a 4*8 Display Card, an unsupported :( Cabletron card, 8M
memory, 80M HD.)
Well, when I booted the kernel from a MacOS partition, it got up to where
it needed the root, and then died. The problem is, it does the same
thing after I've made an A/UX Root partition, mkfs-ed it, and run
installer with all of the "NEEDed" and most of the other files. The
last few lines on the screen are:
Changing root device to sd0a
PRAM: 0x33eb4857, macos_boottime: 0x33eb4848
and it sits there. Sometimes it says instead:
Changing root device to sd0a
sd0: mode sense (4) returned nonsense; using fictitious geometry
PRAM: [various chars], macos_boottime: [similar chars]
If I hit return, it says:
Panic: kernel jump to zero
Stopped at _debugger+0x6: unlk a6
db>
And, if I say continue (on a whim), it says:
Syncing disks... done
NetBSD/mac68k does not trust itself to update the RTC on shutdown.
Dumping to dev401, offset 8
dump 67 66 65 64 area improper
And it reboots.
Anybody have any ideas? I'm going to proceed to try to re-download all
of the necessary distribution files, and reinstall them, but I'm not
really sure that's the problem. If somebody has a clue, I'd appreciate
the help. Thanx!
-Seth Miller