Re: Installing NetBSD1.32 without install script

["B. Bogart" <bbogart%iname.com@localhost>]

On 12-Oct-98, Markus Illenseer wrote:
> > some of them. To be precise: 68020 and 68030 ones. _NOT_ 68LC040
> > or 68LC060, currently. This is clearly stated in the INSTALL document
> > near the top, so you can't sue me :-).

>  Turns out he has a plain A3000 - which makes me wonder about what happens.

>  He says, he is using "loadbsd -bpZ" and that NetBSD would not start w/o
> "-pZ" option.  I dont even know offhand what "-pZ" does, because I never
> used it on my A3000 :-)  OK, I looked it up. Loading directly to CHIP-
> RAM. Means he has no 2MB max mem chunk?

>  My guess is, that he has non-contingous memory, maybe even 16Bit RAM,
> and that NetBSD doesnt offer enough linerar RAM, which could explain 
> the crashes.

> > Btw: zcat, or the gzip -d beneath it, shouldnt use floating point... maybe
> > with the exception of statistics which are output with the -v option only.

>  "Shouldnt" :-)
>  
>  I am running out of ideas.

>  PS: I suggest to leave the replys to port-amiga from now on.

> -- 
> Markus Illenseer
> NetBSD 1.3.2 CD-ROM "Gateway! Vol. 3" now shipping!  See:  http://core.de/


Hello again,
Here is some further information on my problems. I have previously installed
NetBSD1.21 with some success. It all worked fine (with X too) but i got
strange segmentation fault messages. When i was using netbsd1.21 I also had to
use the -pZ  options for loadbsd. Anyhow i asked about my segmentation fault
problem and was told to reinstall from scratch, and since i was doing that i
downloaded the lastest sets and am using then instead. the install script for
netbsd 1.21 never crashed on me.

I do have incontigious memory. I have 4meg of fast ram (I assume 32 bit) on
the motherboard, and 8 on an expansion card. and the 2 chip. I have
experimented with the -n1 -n2 options with no success, netbsd will only boot
with -pZ (I belive that the -p means use highest priority memory first, the 4
on the motherboard, and the Z means that the kernel is loaded into chip mem
first.) 

I hope this helps.

Ben Bogart