Subject: Re: Booting problems
To: None <MELVIN.CHUA@asu.edu>
From: Rahim Azizarab <rahim@megspo.megsinet.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/06/1997 20:08:13
You didn't Build your devices. Start the Install program from Mac OS and
click on the file. Then click on the Build Devices.
I ran into the same problem.
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997 MELVIN.CHUA@asu.edu wrote:
> 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.
>
> ==============================================================================
> Melvin Chua
> President
> American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
> Arizona State University Student Chapter
>
> melvin.chua@asu.edu
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