At 9:57 PM +0900 4/19/03, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>In article <a05100301ba5e8835bd11@[10.0.0.10]>
>raub@kudria.com wrote:
>
>>  At 11:48 PM +0900 1/28/03, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>>  >I have not got any clue to fix bootloader problem on serial console..
>>  >1.4L bootloader seems to work, but there are many changes between
>>  >1.4L and 1.6M. But -current bootloader works fine on news5000 even
>>  >on serial console.
>
>>	All I can say is I wish I knew how to make a bootloader so I
>>  could help out.  Unfortunately, in this aspect I am rather like Homer
>>  Simpson: clueless.
>
>Today I found a (silly) bug and I've committed the fix:
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2003/04/19/0006.html
>
>Would you please try a new boot.fs image for newsmips?
>http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-1.6R.fs.gz
>
>If it works, I'll build a new snapshot.
>(Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's too late for 1.6.1-release..)
>---
>Izumi Tsutsui
>tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp


	Hello there!

	Thanks to your new floppy I do get to boot the machine and 
get *this* close to start installing netbsd:


NEWS> bo fh
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(tsutsui@mirage, Sun Apr 13 10:41:00 JST 2003)
Booting fh(0,0,0)
3883504+136952=3D0x3d5afc

Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
     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 1.6R (INSTALL) #9: Sat Apr 19 20:49:23 JST 2003
         tsutsui@mirage:/sys/arch/newsmips/compile/INSTALL
total memory =3D 12256 KB
avail memory =3D 7216 KB
using 178 buffers containing 712 KB of memory
SONY NET WORK STATION, Model NWS-3710, Machine ID #30145
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000 CPU (0x220) Rev. 2.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 2=
=2E0
cpu0: 64KB/4B direct-mapped Instruction cache, 64 TLB entries
cpu0: 64KB/4B direct-mapped write-through Data cache
hb0 at mainbus0
le0 at hb0 addr 0xbff80000 level 1: address 08:00:46:00:79:e7
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
mkclock0 at hb0 addr 0xbff407f8
zsc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfec0000 level 1
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console i/o)
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
kb0 at hb0 addr 0xbfd00000 level 2
wskbd0 at kb0 (mux ignored)
sc0 at hb0 addr 0xbfe00100 level 0
scsibus0 at sc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
md0: internal 2560 KB image area
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
SC(t): [istatus=3D0x80, tstatus=3D0x2]
sd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST31230N, 0290> disk fixed
sd0: 1010 MB, 3992 cyl, 5 head, 103 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2069860 sectors
SC(t): [istatus=3D0x80, tstatus=3D0x2]
boot device: <unknown>
root on md0a dumps on md0b
root file system type: ffs
erase ^H, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T
Terminal type? [vt100]
Erase is backspace.
(I)nstall, (S)hell or (H)alt ? i

  Welcome to sysinst, the NetBSD-1.6R system installation tool.  This
  menu-driven tool is designed to help you install NetBSD to a hard disk, or
  upgrade an existing NetBSD system, with a minimum of work.  In the followi=
ng
  menus, you may change the current selection by either typing the reference
  letter (a, b, c, ...).  Arrow keys may also work.  You activate the curren=
t
  selection from the menu by typing the enter key.

  If you booted from a floppy, you may now remove the disk.

  Thank you for using NetBSD!


  You have chosen to install NetBSD on your hard disk.  This will change
  information on your hard disk.  You should have made a full backup before
          c) Load and install distribution sets

  (After you enter the partition information but before your disk is changed=
,
  you will have the opportunity to quit this procedure.)

  Shall we continue?
                                  d0: no disk label
1sd0: no disk label              =AF>b: Yes     =AF

	Now, where did it stop?  Well, when I got to the screen where 
it asks if you want to install to the hard drive and I select yes 
(option b), it gives the message that my sd0 has no disk label.  How 
can I label it so it can continue?  Can I just slap it to a Sun 
sparcstation?

	Anyway, it seems that after this I may finally be able to 
install netbsd in this machine. =3D)