Hi!

Thanks for the help; the installboot command run from netbsd-2.0
sparc64 cd install worked great.

After changing the symlink for /usr/X11R6/bin/X to XFree86 from Xsun
(should this be changed in the sets?) everything is working great with
the drivers you provided at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/macallan/sparc/X11/ati_sparc.tar.gz

X is working fine. I ran a few binary packages from 3.0 which are OK
if I needed to symlink a few libraries, but I'm now compiling from
pkgsrc to get the linking done properly in the first place.

I'll probably be posting some more questions as I find them.

Oh, how can I get more virtual screens with Stop-Fn? Stop-F2,3,4 etc.
shows blank screens and not a login prompt.

I added wscons to rc.conf but it says the screens are already
configured, but my /etc/ttys only has serial consoles... sorry for the
dumb question.

Thanks! and Happy Easter!

Amadeus

On 4/14/06, Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> > > I just tried with 20060410 20060408 20060407 from releng and each
> > > time I run the miniroot installer, and get to the newfs part of
> > > install I get "program ended on signal" when sysinstalll runs:
> > >
> >
> > Ok my bad. I was booting from /dev/wd0b, then changing the partition
> > size od wd0b during install.
> >
> > I set up partitions before booting -current sysinstall and, without
> > altering the disklabel, everything is fine until.... installing the
> > bootloader.
> >
> > Right after all the sets have been fetched and extracted, when
> > installing the bootloader:
> >
> > ... /dev/rwd0a is of unknown file type (paraphrased).
>
> Umm, that's odd - sounds like installboot tries to read from rwd0a or
> something. Did you run installboot by hand or is the installer hosed?
> ( sorry, I'm not very familiar with the installer. Usually I find it
> more convenient to disklabel / unpack / installboot by hand but that's
> just me... )
>
> Anyway, to get the disk bootable do this:
> - copy /usr/mdec/ofwboot into your new root fs ( wd0a I guess )
> - run installboot /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootblk /ofwboot
> I'm not sure if you need to unmount wd0a for this step. The 3rd
> parameter is the path to the 2nd stage loader /in the filesystem the 1st
> parameter points at/.
>
> Make sure the filesystem on wd0a is FFSv1 since the boot loader still
> can't handle FFSv2 or LFS.
>
> > I suspect it is that I kept the partition table made from a 2.0
> > sysinstall, although I did specify 'newfs' for each partition (the
> > swap partition held the -current sysinstall).
>
> You could just have kept the 2.0 partitions.
>
> have fun
> Michael
>
>
>