All,

I'm trying to install 1.5.2 to my fresh and new Personal WorkStation
600a. Unfortunately, when I try installing with sysinst, the install
fails trying to mount /dev/sd0a on /. Shouldn't that be /mnt ? I can
escape to a shell and mount /dev/sd0a on /mnt with no problems
whatsoever. I've tried the bootdisks for 1.5.2 and 1.5 and the
alphacd.iso for 1.5.2, all from ftp.netbsd.org. All the same problem.

Is there any way around this apart from manually creating filesystems
and extracting filesets ? I'm new to the arch (coming from i386) so I
was hoping for an easy install to get me on the road ;)

Any and all hints and tips appreciated.

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

Dmesg (note that it says 600au, where my case says 600a, dont know
what the difference is (yet)) :

Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
Unrecognized boot flag ','.
Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
[ netbsd ELF symbol table not valid ]
[ no symbol table formats found ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5.2 (INSTALL) #26: Sat Aug 18 10:04:15 MEST 2001
    he@albatross.urc.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/INSTALL
Digital Personal WorkStation 600au, 598MHz
8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
total memory = 768 MB
(1896 KB reserved for PROM, 766 MB used by NetBSD)
avail memory = 703 MB
using 4916 buffers containing 39328 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21164A-0 (unknown minor type 0)
cpu0: Architecture extensions: 1<BWX>
cia0 at mainbus0: DECchip 2117x Core Logic Chipset (Pyxis), pass 1
cia0: extended capabilities: 1<BWEN>
cia0: using BWX for PCI config access
cia0: WARNING: Pyxis pass 1 DMA bug; no bets...
pci0 at cia0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
de0 at pci0 dev 3 function 0
de0: interrupting at dec 550 irq 0
de0: DEC 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0
de0: address 00:00:f8:76:04:64
de0: enabling 10baseT port
pciide0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: CMD Technology PCI0646 (rev. 0x01)
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present
pciide0: primary channel wired to compatibility mode
atapibus0 at pciide0 channel 0
cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6102B, 8900218402, 1106> type 5 cdrom removable
cd0: 32-bit data port
cd0: drive supports PIO mode 3, DMA mode 2
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at isa irq 14
cd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 3, DMA mode 1 (using DMA data transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel wired to compatibility mode
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)
sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x0484 (rev. 0x43)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0: vendor 0x1011 product 0x0024 (rev. 0x02)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o space, memory space enabled
isp0 at pci1 dev 9 function 0
isp0: interrupting at dec 550 irq 16
isp0: Ultra Mode Capable
isp0: Board Revision 1040B, loaded F/W Revision 4.66.0
isp0: Last F/W revision was 5.57.1
scsibus0 at isp0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
isa0 at sio0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: console
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3bf irq 7
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70-0x71: mc146818 or compatible
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ29B    (C) DEC, 0016> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 4091 MB, 3708 cyl, 20 head, 113 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8380080 sectors
md0: internal 4650K image area
WARNING: can't figure what device matches "DVA 1 0 0 0 0 0 0"
root on md0a dumps on md0b
WARNING: clock gained 4983 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs
sd0: no disk label
sd0: no disk label
sd0: no disk label


Also note that my video card (a PowerStorm 4D60T, using 2 PCI slots)
is not detected. Could this be due to the slots being 64 bit ?

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