Installing & Booting NetBSD 1.2 under SVR4

[Don Phillips <bsd%resun.com@localhost>]

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@localhost
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