Subject: Installing & Booting NetBSD 1.2 under SVR4
To: NetBSD Mailing List <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Don Phillips <bsd@resun.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 06/05/1997 09:43:13
Hi, All:
I've gone back through the archives for this list from January 97 to
present and I haven't been able to find an answer to my dilemma there.
First, my configuration:
Stock A3000/25/16 with an 850 MB & 2.2 GB HD. It also has Commodore's
Ethernet card in it, and Commodore's multiport serial card.
AmigaDOS is version 2.x or 1.3. Without a tremendous amount of work, the
only method that I have of transferring files to the AmigaDOS partition is
to use a comm program that only supports X modem, and does not properly
truncate files. I have to post-process the file to get it to be the
correct length.
Partition information for HD for NetBSD:
# Name Start Blocks Size Flags
1: Unix_Root 1144 615472 300 MB mb P0 C0 F0x554e4901
2: Unix_SwAp 616616 205920 100 MB mb P0 C0 F0x72657376
3: Unix_Boot 822536 4576 2 MB MB P2 C2 F0x554e4900
4: BSD_Root 827112 811096 396 MB mb P0 C0 F0x4e425207
5: BSD_SwAp 1638208 205348 100 MB mb P0 C0 F0x4e425301
6: BSD_Boot 1843556 4576 2 MB MB P0 C0 F0x554e4900
7: WB_1.3 1848132 4576 2 MB Mb P0 C0 F0x444f5301
8: WB_2.x 1852708 12584 6 MB MB P0 C0 F0x444f5301
9: Work 1865292 244244 119 MB Mb P0 C0 F0x444f5301
I've read the procedures that specify that you also need a user
partition, but I've got fond hopes that I can make it work with
the above configuration. If necessary, I can probably arrange to
sacrifice Unix_SwAp and turn it into the root partition. I'll worry
about that if I can get far enough so that it matters.
Procedures:
I've used HDToolBox to set up the above configuration. I used 'dd' under
SVR4 to transfer the miniroot file system to the BSD_SwAp partition. The
BSD_SwAp partition was quiet at the time.
I've tried using loadbsd version 2.13 & 2.14. Both want version 37 of
the expansion.library. AmigaDOS 2.x is version 33, if my memory serves.
I've tried using gobsd-1.04, after having loaded the miniroot to the swap
partition, but haven't been able to get it to open the kernel file.
'gobsd test' reports two lines of memory information, then fails trying
to find the kernel.
I've tried putting bootblock-1.2 onto a floppy under SVR4. No joy for
that method either.
I believe that I'm to the point that I'm running out of ideas.
I would greatly appreciate it if somebody could either point me at a set
of instructions on how to proceed under AmigaDOS 2.x. I'd appreciate it
even more if somebody can enlighten me as to how I can boot NetBSD from
SVR4. The latter would save me a lot of grief in trying to get AmigaDOS
resurrected.
Thanks in advance for any and all advice.
--
Don Phillips bsd%blkhole.resun.com@foxtail.com
Research Unlimited or ...!foxtail!blkhole!bsd
Escondido, Calif. My opinions are just that, and no more.