Subject: Re: NetBSD 3.0/3.0.1/RC3 Amiga miniroot.fs
To: Nagilum <nagilum@nagilum.org>
From: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
List: port-amiga
Date: 10/15/2006 10:14:39
Hello,

> recently I tried to reinstall NetBSD on my Amiga,
> however I didn't get very far.
> After preparing the swap-install, booting went fine until:
>
> init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: (I press return)
> init: single user shell terminated, restarting
> Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh: (and so forth)
>
> This happens right after complaining WARNING: bad date in battery clock
> As you can see from the subject I tried several miniroot.fs versions.. I also 
> tried -ASn0 (instead of leaving the default -ASn2) as option for loadbsd.
> Any suggestions?

You say that you're trying to reinstall. I've noticed that the 
miniroot kernel will, in certain configurations, want to use an existing 
partition as its root. So you should try adding "b" to your "-ASn0" so 
that it asks for the root, and enter wd0b or sd0b or whatever would 
correspond to your swap partition when it prompts for the root.

John Klos