Subject: Stalled Installation
To: None <port-amiga@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Gorman Quinn <glquinn@goodnet.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 02/08/1998 20:03:38
I am having trouble loading NetBSD-1.3 on my Amiga 3000 boosted
with a 68040. The following is my startup trail.
The hard drive complex was neatly presented by rdbinfo as
follows:
Device: "scsi.device" Unit: 4 Capacity: 4066.6 Megs
DiskVendor: HP DiskProduct 4.26 GB rev 0632 DiskRevision: 0632
Cylinders: 3191 Heads: 1 Blks-p-Trk: 2610 [Blks-p-Cyl: 2610]
Total Blocks: 8328510 Block Size 512 (sd0?)
--| Partition: "HDH0" Capacity: 847.4 Megs
--| Start Block: 5220 End Block: 1740869 Total Blocks: 1735650
--| Block Size: 512 (sd0a)
--| Partition: "HDH1" Capacity: 850.0 Megs
--| Start Block: 1740870 End Block: 3481739 Total Blocks: 1740870
--| Block Size: 512 (sd0b)
--| Partition: "HDH2" Capacity: 335.1 Megs
--| Start Block: 3481740 End Block: 4168169 Total Blocks: 686430
--| Block Size: 512 (sd0c)
--| Partition: "HDH3" Capacity: 839.8 Megs
--| Start Block: 4168170 End Block: 5888159 Total Blocks: 1719990
--| Block Size: 512 (sd0d)
--| Partition: "HDH4" Capacity: 843.6 Megs
--| Start Block: 5888160 End Block: 7615979 Total Blocks: 1727820
--| Block Size: 512 (sd0e)
--| Partition: "HDH5" Capacity: 347.9 Megs
--| Start Block: 7615980 End Block: 8328509 Total Blocks: 712530
--| Block Size: 512 (sd0f)
###
Device: "scsi.device" Unit: 5 Capacity: 810.5 Megs
DiskVendor: QUANTUM DiskProduct TRB850S DiskRevision: 0404
Cylinders: 3242 Heads: 1 Blks-p-Trk: 512 [Blks-p-Cyl: 512]
Total Blocks: 1659904 Block Size 512 (sd1?)
--| Partition: "Swap" Capacity: 64.7 Megs
--| Start Block: 1024 End Block: 133631 Total Blocks: 132608
--| Block Size: 512 (sd1a) datatype 0x4e425301
--| Partition: "SwapLinux" Capacity: 65.7 Megs
--| Start Block: 133632 End Block: 268287 Total Blocks: 134656
--| Block Size: 512 (sd1b) datatype amiga ffs
--| Partition: "LinuxSources" Capacity: 66.2 Megs
--| Start Block: 268288 End Block: 403967 Total Blocks: 135680
--| Block Size: 512 (sd1c) datatype amiga ffs
--| Partition: "root" Capacity: 208.2 Megs
--| Start Block: 403968 End Block: 830463 Total Blocks: 426496
--| Block Size: 512 (sd1d) datatype 0x4e425207
--| Partition: "usr" Capacity: 405.0 Megs
--| Start Block: 830464 End Block: 1659903 Total Blocks: 829440
--| Block Size: 512 (sd1e) datatype 0x4e425507
###
Device: "scsi.device" Unit: 6 Capacity: 122.8 Megs
DiskVendor: MAXTOR DiskProduct 7120SCS DiskRevision: 3034
Cylinders: 1497 Heads: 4 Blks-p-Trk: 42 [Blks-p-Cyl: 168]
Total Blocks: 251496 Block Size 512 (sd2?)
--| Partition: "WB2.1" Capacity: 8.0 Megs
--| Start Block: 332 End Block: 16765 Total Blocks: 16434
--| Block Size: 512 (sd2a)
--| Partition: "Work" Capacity: 113.1 Megs
--| Start Block: 16766 End Block: 248501 Total Blocks: 231736
--| Block Size: 512 (sd2b)
###
sd1? is the drive involved with NetBSD. The datatype was
obtained from the HardDriveToolBox. Two partitions (sd1b and sd1c) are
not involved, however. Does more need to be done than just setting the
codes for datatypes?
Miniroot.fs was installed easily as follows:
xstreamtodev --input=miniroot.fs --rdb-name=Swap
found partition: "Swap" capacity: 64.7 Megs
;; correct decision!
start block: 1024 end block: 133631 total blocks: 132608
block Size: 512
dumping to: start block: 1024 to end block: 133631 [size: 66303K]
;; why a dump, of what?
write from file "miniroot.fs" to partition "Swap"? [Ny]:y
;; y
reading: 00009216 -> 00009315 [ 6%]
;; why 6%, of what? seems correct!
Running loadbsd-2.14 -b netbsd ran well to the line:
10 views configured
Then appeared
warning found rdb->secpercyl (166) != rdb->nsectors (42) * rdb->nheads (4)
warning lp->d_sparespercyl (2) not multiple of lp->d_ntracks (4)
This seems to involve the MAXTOR drive which is not involved in the
NEtBSD setup.
The program asks for information on root and dump partitions. I
would like sd1d to be the root and sd1b could be allowed if sd1a would be
inappropriate. Defaults of sd1a and sd1b are recommended.
A filesystem, apparently for the dump partition, may be chosen
from ffs (amiga?), nfs, msdos or cd9600. Trying many combinations, I
have not been able to get past this point. Ruefully, I submited with the
halt option.
Can anyone tell me the step that I have overlooked or some way to
get fully through the installation? Reviewing the directories generated
by the "sets" shows NetBSD to be a very powerful operating system.
Thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.
Gorman L. Quinn
glquinn@goodnet.com