Subject: Re: bug fix of boot failure on news3400 (Re: Anybody there?)
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Mauricio <raub@kudria.com>
List: port-newsmips
Date: 04/21/2003 11:22:23
At 11:36 PM +0900 4/21/03, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>?Hi, thank you for your report.
No problem. Glad to be of help.
> > Shall we continue?
>> d0: no disk label
>> 1sd0: no disk label ?b: Yes /
>>
>> 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?
>
>"sd0: no disk label" message is printed by kernel when
>it tries to read disklabel but there is no label on the disk.
>This message is just a warning, so you can proceed installation
>and then sysinst will support to make partitions and disklabel.
>If screen is corrupted by the warning messages, you always can hit
>^L (ctrl-L) to repaint the screen.
I found what was going on: once that problem happened, the
screen would stop being written to (as in the vt1000 escape commands
are being ignored or just not being sent anymore). So, I now have to
keep pressing the right arrow key to see the text being draw on on
the screen.
> > Anyway, it seems that after this I may finally be able to
>> install netbsd in this machine. =)
>
>Okay, I've put a new snapshot built from around 20030419 sources:
>ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/arch/newsmips/snapshot/20030419/
>---
>Izumi Tsutsui
>tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp