In message <20020322232155.A1578@rangerover.kasbah>
          Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org> wrote:

> Hiya all,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 07:06:22PM +0100, Sebastian Maus wrote:
> > * Peter Bell <peter@bellfamily.org.uk> wrote (20020321 21:16):
> > > In message <20020321190824.J508-100000@furtle.home>
> > >           James Holtom <jholtom@furtle.org> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > > > I used !HForm (2.52 01 Dec 1999) and allowed it to use longfilenames.
> > > > HForm says the disc is 16383/16/63 C/H/S, but with LBA revises this to
> > > > 29795/16/63. I formatted the RISC OS partition as 13315 cylinders.
> > > > Unfortunately bb_netbsd thinks I've got -3328 cylinders running from 0
> > > > to -3329... argh... I haven't let it proceed to mash my disc...
> > > When I run bb_netbsd, I get 0--3977 cylinders.  Since I haven't got
> > > anything on the drive I didn't care so just went ahead.  bb_netbsd
> > > completes *very* quickly.
> 
> Hmmmm ... negative numbers ... i've tried it out lately on my 10Gb harddisc
> (RiscOS 3.5+hack) and it reported OK AFAIK.... i will take a look but i
> guess its just a printing fault ...
> 
> > It just worked here. RISC OS 4, long filenames, 4 GB IDE disc. Same
> > negative figures in bb_riscbsd.
> > I cannot guarantee it will work on your disc. And before I did that
> > experiment, I backed up everything on the RISC OS part of my disc.
> > 
> > > > I note from the archives that there were issues with the bootloader, but
> > > > I haven't got that far yet, and didn't see anything about disc
> > > > partitioning :-(
> > > !BtNetBSD reports 'Bad disklabel' on my disc.
> > 
> > You' ve not run bb_riscbsd ;-)
> 
> To get away of these confusions : bb_netbsd == bb_riscbsd...

As you suggest, bb_netbsd appears to be the same as bb_riscbsd.  So,
how do I get around the 'Bad disklabel' error from !BtNetBSD - which
comes from MountUFS, I think.  I found some reference to a program
trash_bb, or something like that - is that what I need?

> One important advice for everyone trying to install Acorn32 : if you
> install ELF snapshots dont expect it to work in some time again ... the ELF
> api is work in progress and we're waiting for ARM for the definitive specs
> :(
> 
> For a.out installs it should all just work fine :) ... please do take the
> _newest_ bootloader from the sourcetree ...  (sys/arch/acorn32/stand/....). 
> I'll add another copy to the ftp site later ... The latest version is 
> version 0.99
> 
> Oh for X stuff: download the X sets of 1.5 and grab the expirimental wscons 
> X server if you try out the wscons console ...

This is all so much gobblydigook, until I achieve a disc (or
partition) which looks like a unix device.

> Welcome to the Acorn32 port !

Maybe I should try Linux instead. ;)

-- 
Peter Bell - peter@bellfamily.org.uk