Subject: Making boot floppy
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.ORG>
From: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
List: current-users
Date: 10/23/1997 09:24:15
Well, I managed to work my way through all the current crop of gotchas
including backing out libc.so.13 and I have one small problem left that
I can't seem to figure out.  When I make a boot floppy I get the
following error:

[root@druid.net:/usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/bootfloppy] # make
cp /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/bootfloppy/../../../../sys/arch/i386/compile/INSTALL/netbsd netbsd.tmp
mdsetimage -v netbsd.tmp /usr/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ramdisk/ramdisk-13_ALPHA.fs
mdsetimage: could not find symbols in netbsd.tmp
*** Error code 1

Stop.

I tried leaving the debug symbols in and modifying the makefile to grab
netbsd.gdb instead of netbsd but still no luck.  Anyone know what's
going on here?

Side question:  What should I put in /etc/disktab for floppy3.  This seems
to work.  Is it correct?

floppy3|3.5 in. floppy drive:\
        :dt=floppy:ty=removable:\
        :nc#80:ns#18:nt#2:\
        :se#512:\
        :pa#2880:oa#0:ta=4.2BSD:ba#8192:fa#1024:\
        :pb#2880:ob#0:tb=4.2BSD:bb#8192:fb#1024:\
        :pc#2880:oc#0:tc=4.2BSD:bc#8192:fc#1024:\
        :pd#2880:od#0:td=4.2BSD:bd#8192:fd#1024:

Thanks.

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