Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

>> I am trying to install NetBSD1.2.1 here on my
>> A2000/030/1MB/16MB/A2091/PicassoII
>>
>> I have prepared my harddrive and try to
>>
>> loadbsd -b netbsd
>>
>> loadbsd replies "Cant copy downwards yet".
>> What did I do wrong ?

>You, nothing. I made a sanity check a bit too crude; instead of
>accurately checking for overlapped copies, it only checks for upwards
>copying.

>[To be precise, the error messages is wrong and should read "upwards"].

>Now, I don't understand why it would try this at all with your setup...
>do you have split memory? please show us the "showconfig" output.

14.Ram Disk:> showconfig
PROCESSOR:      CPU 68030/68882fpu/68030mmu
CUSTOM CHIPS:   ECS PAL Agnus (id=$0020), ECS Denise (id=$00FC)
VERS:   Kickstart version 40.63, Exec version 40.10, Disk version 40.42
RAM:    Node type $A, Attributes $5 (FAST), at $1C00000-$23FFFFF (8.0 meg)
        Node type $A, Attributes $5 (FAST), at $3000000-$3FFFFFF (16.0 meg)
        Node type $A, Attributes $703 (CHIP), at $2000-$FFFFF (~1.0 meg)
BOARDS:
 Board + ROM (HD?) (unidentified):   Prod=8738/35($2222/$23) (@$E90000 64K)
 CBM A590/A2091 HD controller:   Prod=514/3($202/$3) (@$EA0000 64K)
 Board (unidentified):   Prod=2092/6($82C/$6) (@$EB0000 64K)
 Board (unidentified):   Prod=2167/11($877/$B) (@$200000 2meg)
 Board (unidentified):   Prod=2167/12($877/$C) (@$EC0000 64K)

>I suggest you try to boot through chipmem (loadbsd -Z), or try an "avail
>flush" before loadbsd. Or maybe try gobsd instead (its on
>ftp.uni-regensburg.de in pub/NetBSD-Amiga/utils/ (i hope)).

loadbsd -Z results in "insufficient Chip Memory",
gobsd hangs.

???????


CU, Manfred