Subject: Kernel config - swap & root question
To: (NetBSD/sparc Maillist) <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/10/1995 20:33:46
I have built -current & kernels, quite happy with it, now I'm
trying to change the disk it boots off from sd0 to sd1 (simple
I thought but...)
Situation:
16Mb ELC using -current, 2 327Mb SCSI disks, sd0 & sd1
NetBSD installed on sd0. (Actually targets 0 & 1)
Partition sd1 into / /usr & /var, newfs them (-O for /)
mount them on /mnt, "make DESTDIR=/mnt distribution" from
/usr/src/etc.
copied my original kernel across, which was 'root on sd0
swap on sd0' and fair enough, when I boot off sd1 it reads
the kernel off there, then switches root & swap to sd0.
(Not what I wanted :)
Tried 'swap generic' kernel - blows up after 'Found boot
device sd1' (Will give callback if wanted). Should a
swap generic kernel work?
Tried it on my original sd0 disk & I get a 'data fault'
directly after it detects the fd..
Then tried the 'correct' 'root on sd1 swap on sd1' and now
it hangs after 'Found boot device sd1' with
'WARNING: preposterous time in filesystem'
'WARNING: clock lost 7851 days -- ...'
Out of interest a 'generic' swap on nfs kernel on my
original partition blows up with
'panic: revarp failed error=51' then gives a nice callback
I think its more than me doing something wrong (Or at least I hope
it is :)
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