Subject: Re: A1200 and NetBSD 1.5
To: Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de>
From: Christophe Prevotaux <c.prevotaux@hexanet.fr>
List: port-amiga
Date: 04/05/2001 01:15:10
It would have helped too if you knew what a 12 Gauges was:)
FYI 12Gauges is an Accelarator Board (68030 50Mhz + FPU ) + SCSI 2 controller

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 01:06:32 +0200
Bernd Sieker <bsieker@freenet.de> wrote:

> On 04.04.01, 23:39:15, Christophe Prevotaux wrote:
> > I was trying to install NetBSD/Amiga 1.5 
> > on my A1200(10M RAM) + CSA 12 Gauges and SCSI disk ( plugged into the CSA Scsi controller )
> > 
> > And to my great surprise it did not want to even load the kernel for installation
> > 
> > I used loadbsd -A -b netbsd.GENERIC ( also tried netbsd.INSTALL )
> 
> It would have helped to have read the documentation before, at least
> the pages about supported hardware. An A1200 has only an 68020 by
> default, and no MMU. But NetBSD absolutely needs one; 68030 (except EC
> models) and 68040 and 68060 include one, and there is a co-processor
> MMU for 68020 (the Commodore A2620 board for A2000 had one). So unless
> you get a 030 board for your A1200, NetBSD will never run. Not the
> slightest bit. (Neither will OpenBSD or Linux, for that matter.)
> 
> > 
> > I get a grey screen and then .... nothing it just hangs there
> > 
> > I also tried loadbsd -I ff -b  and all combinations using -n2 
> > 
> > Could anyone tell me how I should proceed to install NetBSD on my A1200 ? 
> > 
> > 
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> -- 
> Bernd Sieker
> 
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