Subject: RE: YA "Cannot mount root" error
To: NetBSD Mailing List (E-mail) <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Brett Kessler <kesslerb@algorithmics.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/23/2000 09:17:02
Colin wrote:
> these all look just fine. i assume that you've got netbsd installed on
> the 1GB drive? you are booting from a kernel located on the root
> partition of that drive, right?
The above statements are all true.
> i see you're using the standard ncrscsi kernel. you might have better
> luck with an SBC kernel. there should be one somewhere in the 1.4.2
> distribution directory (kern_sbc.tgz?). please try that one and see if
> it fixes the problem.
I've seen other references to a "kern_sbc.tgz" file, but I can't seem to
find it anywhere... and I've been looking for a couple of hours now. It's
even listed in the .../NetBSD-1.4.2/mac68k/INSTALL.html file, but the file
itself is nowhere to be found.
For example, here's what I've found in a few different places within the
.../NetBSD-1.4.2/mac68k/ directory tree:
binary/kernel/netbsd.GENERIC.gz
binary/kernel/netbsd.GENERICSBC.gz
binary/sets/kern.tgz
installation/instkernel/netbsd-INSTALL.gz
installation/instkernel/netbsd-INSTALLSBC.gz
The one in the binary/sets directory (the one I'm currently using) is the
only one that's a tarred & gzipped file; the others are only gzipped. And
the installer doesn't like that. Based on that, how can I install the other
kernel? (I'm assuming it's supposed to be the netbsd.GENERICSBC.gz file.)
Thanks again!
--Brett