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Help with NetBSD 1.2.1



This was also posted on comp.unix.amiga. Sorry for the double post.

Hi! I'm a brand new BSD person, so this is going to be a little sketchy,
but I'll try to explain my dilemma as best I can. First, my system:     

A2000 with GVP-M 68040/40Mhz board
  GVP-M board has onboard SCSI-2 adapter, uses tekscsi2.device
32MB of RAM
Spectrum 2MB card
1GB hard drive for BSD to go onto. Partitioned as follows:
        root: 20MB 0x4e425207
        user: 100MB 0x4e425507
        swap: 80MB 0x4e425301
        local: 300MB 0x4e425507

Rest of this drive is an AmigaDOS partition.

The miniroot loads to swap fine, no errors reported.

When I run loadbsd -b netbsd, the screen clears, and I get the screen with
all the useful into about my machine. Recognizes the RAM on the GVP-M
board, and everything. However, no sdx's show up. No sd0, no sd1, and so
forth. It sits there asking me for a root device> which is what it's
supposed to do, I suppose. When I type sd0*, for example, (or any other
number in place of 0) I get this error:

10 views configured
panic: cannot mount root
stopped at 0xb1ffe    unlk    a6

The only thing I can think of is that the tekscsi2.device is not
supported? I know it was never mentioned in the docs, but I thought it was
a fairly open piece of hardware. Does this seem like it's the problem? If
so, are there drivers for it someplace? Or, should I try a newer NetBSD
version, like 1.3b? I only used 1.2.1 because I wanted to try something
stable for my first shot at NetBSD.

Also, I've played around with some things. I read the 1.3b INSTALL
document, and saw that it told me to make root and swap automount, with
special boot codes and stuff. I did that as well, trying to see if maybe
the 1.2.1 INSTALL doc missed it, but still, no luck. Does NetBSD even have
drivers for my GVP-M board? It's one of those fairly new TekMagic type
boards that came out after GVP went under, that you could trade in your
old G-Force boards for. Which I did. 

Anyway, any help will be much appreciated. Thanks!

Andy Rittner
adr93001%uconnvm.uconn.edu@localhost
http://www.connix.com/~rittner




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