In message: <20021111191111.E757-100000@grunt.lab>
            Wayne Knowles <wdk@netbsd.org> writes:
: Slice 10 should be correct (use prtvtoc to display partition details), or
: more correctly partition 8, which is the volume header.

Both slice 10 and slice 8 produce the same behavior.  Both produced
the same error before, and the same results from the vhdtool.  I
cannot tell which one I did last.

: boot -f dksd(,2,8)boot
:      ^^
:      Required to prevent stand-alone shell (SASH) from being pre-loaded
:      Error indicated the NetBSD bootstrap is being loaded into memory
:      occupied by the sash loader (ie.  You shouldn't see the SASH banner)

OK. This is the magic cookie I needed (I'm pasting the complete dmesg
at the end of my mail because I didn't find one in the archives).  sd0
and sd1 came with the machine, and still have RiscOS on them.a

One question on your instructions:
: Once you have the install image booted, you need to shell out and update
: your disk parameters using "disklabel -i sdX" then select "I" to update
: the disklabel with the correct parameters (sector counts, size of c
: partition etc)

Do I need to change the SystemV partition at all?  Or am I just
entering the size information and the installation tool does the rest?
Should 'c' partition cover the whole disk, or the whole disk not
covered by the 'a' partition?

Oh, one last question.  I suspect that 16MB is going to be very
painful to deal with.  What is the speed of the SIMMs I need to get to
expand things (A quick web search didn't turn up the answer, and I
can't puzzle out for the simms that are in this what their speed are).
I'm guessing either 100ns or 80ns from the vintage, in banks of 8
(rather than 4), and that they need to be parity.

RiscOS gets the right MAC address for this beast, but I see that it is
a FAQ on how to cope, so I won't ask about that just yet....

Warner

P.S.  The output:

>> boot -f dksd(,2,8)boot
6480+288+304 entry: 0x80600000

NetBSD/mipsco 1.5V FFS Primary Bootstrap

NetBSD/mipsco 1.5V Secondary Bootstrap, Revision 1.0
(wdk@mips3230, Thu May 24 00:38:38 NZST 2001)

Loading: dksd(,2,8)netbsd
1254904+3167872+152680 [83+56128+45329]=0x478874
Starting at 0x80021000

[ using 102076 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5V (RAMDISK) #1: Wed May 23 17:04:18 NZST 2001
    wdk@grunt:/home/wdk/netbsd/src/sys/arch/mipsco/compile/RAMDISK
Mips 3230 Magnum (Pizazz)
total memory = 16384 KB
avail memory = 10340 KB
using 230 buffers containing 920 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000 CPU (0x230) Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 4.0
cpu0: 32KB Instruction, 32KB Data, direct mapped cache
obio0 at mainbus0
le0 at obio0 addr 0xba000000: address 00:00:00:00:00:00
le0: 16 receive buffers, 4 transmit buffers
mkclock0 at obio0 addr 0xbd000000
rambo0 at obio0 addr 0xbc000000: parity enabled
fd0 at obio0 addr 0xbe000000: not fully implemented
zsc0 at obio0 addr 0xbb000000
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1 (console i/o)
asc0 at obio0 addr 0xb8000000: NCR53C94, 24MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <MAXTOR, LXT-200S, 4.18> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd0: 191 MB, 1314 cyl, 7 head, 42 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 392056 sectors
sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
sd1 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <MAXTOR, LXT-200S, 4.18> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd1: 191 MB, 1314 cyl, 7 head, 42 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 392056 sectors
sd1: async, 8-bit transfers
sd2 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <HP, C3323A, 4271> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd2: 1003 MB, 2982 cyl, 7 head, 98 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2056008 sectors
sd2: sync (248.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (4.032MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
md0: internal 3072 KB image area
boot device: sd2
root on md0a dumps on md0b
mountroot: trying cd9660...
mountroot: trying nfs...
mountroot: trying ffs...
WARNING: clock gained 9002 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs
init: copying out flags `-s' 3
init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11
Terminal type? [vt100]