can't boot NetBSD

["Carol Zick" <cjz123%theglobe.com@localhost>]

Hi,

I sure hope someone can help me with this! I have
been trying to install NetBSD for sometime now but for one reason or another I 
can't make it boot. I will try and include everything that I have done to 
install NetBSD. But if anyone has any questions please email me.

I am installing version 1.4.1 of NetBSD, on an Amiga 2000
with a Blizzard 2060 board, 128 megs of ram, an Ariadne 2 card, and a 
flickerfixer. I am using the ECS chip set. The computer seems to be stable 
under Amiga O/S 3.1.

I downloaded  miniroot.fs, rdbinfo , and xstreamtodev , and put them into a 
directory called NetBSD. I put loadbsd, and loadbsd-2.14 in the c directory. I 
then downloaded the sets, and put them into a directory called sets. 

Next I partitioned the hard drive. I made the first partition DH0 (Amiga). Then 
I made the next partitions 
root 0x4e425207 (150 megs), swap 0x4e425301 (384 megs)
and usr 0x4e425507 (3500 megs). I then used xstreamtodev to copy the 
miniroot.fs to swap. 

I then rebooted the computer, holding down both mouse 
buttons. But the swap partition did not show up on the list of bootable drives. 
(none of the NetBSD partitions did). After rereading the install instructions I 
came across where it said "bootblocks may not work on some systems and may 
require a mountable filesystem on others." So I moved on to try
to use loadbsd.

I have ixemul.librarys installed, amd they seem to work with out crashing when 
I was using Amiga Apache.

I typed loadbsd -b netbsd, but all I get is the error message: 

loadbsd: unknown binary: Undefined error: 00

I then tried running snoopdos before I typed loadbsd
-b netbsd. loadbsd seems to be looking for two files
bsdsockets.library and sockets.library. 

Do I need these two libraries and if I do then where do I get them?

I then tried to use loadbsd-2.14, by typing loadbsd-2.14 -b netbsd, but it 
gives me the error messege: 

loadbsd-2.14: open: Operation not permitted

After using snoopdos on loadbsd-2.14 it does not seem to give me information on 
what is going wrong.

If you have any ideas of what I am doing wrong please let me know.

Thanks in advance,
Jeanie Zick


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