OK.. I managed to get the little multia booted with a greusome floppy hack.. ie:

boot of the install floppy, shell, mount root via nfs to /mnt
mount up usr on /mnt/usr
chroot /mnt
/etc/rc
exec login

it works..  most functions seem to work OK..  2 problems..

a) I cant find the !@#$ kernel on the floppy to copy off so ps is kinda hokey.
b) tried to compile new kernel:  got this:


fatal kernel trap:

    trap entry = 0x2 (memory management fault)
    a0         = 0x120296068
    a1         = 0x1
    a2         = 0x0
    pc         = 0xfffffc000033d068
    ra         = 0xfffffc00003f4ccc
    curproc    = 0xfffffe004a55f000
        pid = 2, comm = pagedaemon

panic: trap
syncing disks... 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 giving up

dump to dev 601 not possible
rebooting...


This happens sporadicly during the kernel compile.. I can do a few files (about
10) and then suddenly WHAM.  I created a swapfile like the diskless manual said
to.. and did a swapon /usr/swap  

Did I miss something here?

generous debug output available on request.  ;)

Multias are fun..  Wheeeeeeee!!!!

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Tim Rightnour    -  root@garbled.futureone.com
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