Subject: Booting problems
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <MELVIN.CHUA@asu.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/03/1997 08:35:12
Hi,

I just aquired netbsd for the macintosh and it would start the boot but
freeze mid-way.
The version I have is 1.2.1. I have a Macintosh Quadra 800, 80MB of RAM,
and 1MB of VRAM. The error message I get are 'kernel jump to zero' and
sometimes 'address error'. It also says 'Stopped at _Debugger+0x6: unlk a6'.

I've partitioned my drive with APS Power Tools and have 3 AUX partitions -
a root, a swap and a eshatology1. I mounted the partitions by typing 
'mount /dev/sd0a/root' for the root and 'mount /dev/sd0b/usr' for the
usr partitions. That's the only thing that I could have done wrong. I'm
unsure about how the installer(bsd) recognises which partition is the root, 
since partitioning was done external to this program. There wasn't a
particular address/pointer that was given during the partitioning/formatting
process to identify each partition so I could use it when assigning the 
root/usr.

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Melvin Chua
President
American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Arizona State University Student Chapter

melvin.chua@asu.edu
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