Re: port-atari/40315: Bootloader fails on Atarit TT030

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

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From: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
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Subject: Re: port-atari/40315: Bootloader fails on Atarit TT030
Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 11:40:08 -0800

 It's not the firmware -- previously I had been running NetBSD 1.6.1 rock 
 solid for months, with heavy disk activity.  During that time I never had 
 any boot issues or any issues that would indicate there's a 2GB limit.
 
 If it would help, I can upload a disk image of a working 1.6.1 install, same 
 format as the HEAD disk image already included in this PR.  Then looking at 
 the differences between the two should help pinpoint the problem.
 
 Previously, David Brownlee fixed the installboot code so that it would not 
 report failure and installation would proceed.  But the installed boot code 
 was never really tested until now due to the other install issues.  It's 
 entirely possible that installboot is dropping the IDE boot code on my drive 
 instead of SCSI, or something like that, who knows.
 
 I went back and ran installboot from 1.6.1 on my existing HEAD install, and 
 now the bootloader gets a little further but still fails with more verbose 
 error info.  /boot.atari is still the version from HEAD and I think this may 
 be causing the new failure.  Next I'm going to try to replace the newer 
 /boot.atari with the one from my older working 1.6.1 install.
 
 I think it's very likely I can get to a combination of old boot code and new 
 kernel/filesystem that works.  It's just a little problematic because while 
 I can preserve the filesystem on a new install, I don't have an easy way of 
 skipping the bootloader installation (installboot and the installation of 
 /boot.atari).
 
 David Ross
 dross%pobox.com@localhost
 
 
 ----- Original Message ----- 
 From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
 To: <port-atari-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost>; 
<gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost>; 
 <netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>; <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
 Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 1:50 AM
 Subject: Re: port-atari/40315: Bootloader fails on Atarit TT030
 
 
 > The following reply was made to PR port-atari/40315; it has been noted by 
 > GNATS.
 >
 > From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: port-atari-maintainer%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
 > gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost,
 >        netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost
 > Subject: Re: port-atari/40315: Bootloader fails on Atarit TT030
 > Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 18:45:51 +0900
 >
 > > The next (final?) install blocker is that the bootloader fails to 
 > > operate.
 > >
 > > My system is using an 18gb SCSI disk.
 >
 > I don't know how primary bootstrap code is loaded by the TT030
 > hardware (maybe by the onboard BIOS or something like that?),
 > but I'm afraid 90's firmware might not support reading
 > (or seeking to) sectors beyond 2GB (i.e. INT32_MAX) limit.
 >
 > How did you create BSD partition in your disk?
 > Can you try to create a smaller root partition (i.e. partition a)
 > then 2GB manually during sysinst?
 >
 > > Here is a disk image from an install of 200812310000Z HEAD:
 > > http://ataritt.dnsalias.org/tt030-halt.img.bz2
 >
 > Umm, bunzip2(1) on NetBSD/i386 5.99.5 says:
 >
 > ---
 > % bunzip2 tt030-halt.img.bz2
 >
 > bunzip2: Caught a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS whilst decompressing.
 >
 >  :
 > ---
 >
 > Could you have MD5 or SHA1 for it?
 > If it's a vaild bzip2 file, we might need another PR for it...
 > ---
 > Izumi Tsutsui
 >
 >