Re: bug fix of boot failure on news3400 (Re: Anybody there?)

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

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@localhost