Subject: segmentation fault
To: NetBSD list <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Merideth Johnston <merideth@sky.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/23/2000 06:09:35
Hi folks.  Me again.  I have half a dozen books from the library now, but I
haven't found anything on this message, "segmentation fault".  I figure it
was something that creapt in from my initial bad shutdowns, and grew into
some kind of disaster area.  Not that it matters now - I am completely
starting over.  I figured I would from the start, sooner or later, and it's
sooner.  8-)  I wanted to clear up that zip driver prob, as it was a little
flakey for the normal shutdown - the zip extention wouldn't load with that
disk in there (it thinks something else is in it's port) and I couldn't
control the partitioning with the zip partition on it.  I did find out that
the way to get it back on is to simply errase the disk using the zip tool
meant for the job.  Unfortunately, that utility also wipes out the desired
partitioning.  (It will let you initiallize it as DOS, but apparently
doesn't consider that anybody would want to initialize it to another
alternative)  I found the only way to partition the zip disk at all was to
initialize it with Apple's HDSC setup (modified for any disk).  Then I
could custom partition it.  That means, though, that if the zip disk is in
the drive when the Mac is booted, that disk will be regarded by the system
as permanent.  which causes the zip extention to blow its mind when I
reboot NetBSD to get back to the Mac OS.  I can live with it that way, but
....  I was wondering if anybody was working on something for the zip
drive, or if there was a fix for this problem, and I just couldn't find it.
As it is, the installer didn't like the root to be on my hard drive at all
when I was rearranging things, as the "a" partition is for the Mac.  I
didn't lose the warnings and fault messages (can't mount root) until I
reconfigured the partitions on the hard drive to be just usr and swap
partitions.  The "a" partition on the zip drive apparently must be for
NetBSD root, too, with the little Mac partition on the outside, as it was
unhappy with it the other way around.  (I did spend some time twiddling
with this, didn't I)  With the space needed to include the compilers, I
kinda need both anyway, but I thought it was peculiar, and wondered if
that's correct (it wants the a partition for the root no matter what drive
it is, and doesn't care much/ won't do it/ if it can't get _some_ a
partition, regardless of the scsi number), or if there is another way of
doing this that would not have this problem.  Mainly curiosity, that.  I
think I wore myself out on this today, and I'd like to think I accomplished
something.  8-)

Oh, another question I want to ask before it slips my mind - is it possible
to pass info between the Mac partition and NetBSD partition on the same
machine, and if so (I would think so...) how?  Is that where local talk
comes in?  I've never used that.  Would it be like setting up a local
network between the two, as if they were different machines, except I
wouldn't need to connect them with any cables?

Thanks for all and any advice/info/suggestions.

Merideth
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