Re: NetBSD installation on NWS-3260

[Mauricio <raub%kudria.com@localhost>]

At 18:59 +0900 24/11/02, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> Sorry, I have not tracked what causes hangs after kernel is loaded,
> but it seems there are some other problems.
>
> In article <a05100304ba060759154c@[10.0.0.10]>
> raub%kudria.com@localhost wrote:
>
> >  I've been trying different boot files.  Usually they would hang up
> >  just before the Copyright notice.  The one I tried was
> >
> >  -rw-rw-rw-   1 raub     weirdos  1474560 Sep 15 10:14 
> > boot-newsmips-14L-nofb.fs
> >
> >  which seems to be a bit larger than the floppy:
>  > # dd if=boot-newsmips-14L-nofb.fs bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0a
> >  write: No space left on device
> >  80+0 records in
> >  80+0 records out
> >  #
>
> Hmm, 512(bytes) * 80(cyls) * 2(heads) * 18(sectors) = 1474560,
> so it should be fit a floppy. What machine did you tried to
> write the image? It seems there is no device file for fd0a
> under /dev and just your root file system is filled.


	I am using a Sparc 20 running Solaris 2.6, as it is the only 
other unix box I have with a floppy.  The other non-unix machine I 
have with a floppy is a Mac.  I wonder if it is the arguments (bs?) 
that are slightly different.

> >  Oh well, at least I went somewhere.  That said, it now hangs up on
> >  waiting for the devices to settle, whatever it means by that.  I
> >  wonder if that means the SCSI HD I have in the machine is not working.
>
> It seems there are some spurious interrups. How about the workaround
> mentioned in news68k FAQ?
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/news68k/faq.html#level_3_int

	I will try that next time i boot the machine.  I probably 
also need to get a new NVRAM since this one seems to be deceased.