Re: Red screen with A3000

["Georges Heinesch" <geohei-ml%geohei.lu@localhost>]

*** This is a reposting since I got a warning from the MAILER-DAEMON.
    I'm not sure whether the first posting got through.

Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (25-Nov-01 22:26:42):

> the meaning of the red screen is ROM (kickstart) checksum error -
> do you boot a kickstart from disk at some point?

I map the ROM during startup via the CSPPC startup menu. But this
worked also before. I didn't change anything regarding startup
settings. I tried it right now again and again I get the red screen.

The backup as well as the restore was confirmed via a compare.
No errors occurred.

I even restored the backups from October and September. Still a red
screen. The restore used to work perfectly before I smashed the RDB.

Is there nothing saved anywhere on the disk (RDB) which is required by
NetBSD and not backked up during a normal image backup using Diavolo?

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Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (04-Dec-01 16:34:45):


> On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 02:05:00PM +0100, Georges Heinesch wrote:
>> Quoting Ignatios Souvatzis (25-Nov-01 22:26:42):
>> 
>> > the meaning of the red screen is ROM (kickstart) checksum error -
>> >  do you boot a kickstart from disk at some point?
>> 
>> I map the ROM during startup via the CSPPC startup menu. But this
>> worked also before. I didn't change anything regarding startup
>> settings. I tried it right now again and again I get the red
>> screen.
>> 
>> The backup as well as the restore was confirmed via a compare.
>> No errors occurred.

> Only error I can think of at this point: somehow the cylinder size
> was different between backup and restore, and the ROM doesn't
> correctly find the NetBSD bootblock when booting.
>  
>> I even restored the backups from October and September. Still a red
>> screen. The restore used to work perfectly before I smashed the
>> RDB.

> Well, the error looks _very_ fishy, because normally it does only
> occur during early startup...

>> Is there nothing saved anywhere on the disk (RDB) which is required
>> by NetBSD and not backked up during a normal image backup using
>> Diavolo?

> Hm. One thing that comes into my mind: the ROM might try to prepare
> to AmigaOS-mount the NetBSD filesystems (as you have given the mount
> flag), but you don't have any FSHD (and, consequently, visible LSEG)
> in your RDB.

> Please install bffs-1.5 into your RDB for both NBR\7 and NBU\7.

> Regards,
>   Ignatios Souvatzis

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