On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 02:34:51AM +0200, Robert Dörfler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> i tried to install NetBSD 3.1 on my Amiga today, but after configuring
>> the harddrive (as described in the manual) the root, usr and swap
>> partitions arent avaible in the early startup menu.
>>
>> What went wrong?
>
> Do they appear at all? (There's a right menu, allowing you to
> deactivate partitions, and a left menu, allowing you to select a
> partition to boot off..  to they appear in the right one?)
>
> Did you make them bootable?
>
> If you think you can answer this with "yes", hm... maybe you can dump
> the RDB and PART blocks for me to look over them?

Hrrm, FWIW I had exactly the same problem when I tried to install 3.0 on 
my Amiga4000-040 (3.0 ROM. I think. Or maybe I swapped and its 3.1..) 
which runs exclusively off of a CybSCSImk2. After writing the swap-image 
to the swap partition the disk doesn't show up _at_all_ in Early Startup 
Menu anymore. Tried LoadBSD:ing the install kernel directly, but it 
doesn't see the disk either. It does show up in the CybSCSI partition 
tool, however.

   I'll have to check again to get a detailed description; I've been 
screwing around to get the SCSI bus acting sane[0], but eventually got two 
similar disks. Both show up in Early Startup Menu when SFS-formatted and 
marked bootable. I was thinking along the lines of whether there was 
something wrong with the "Custom boot code" and "reserved blocks"/"custom 
boot blocks" settings causing NetBSD partitions not to show up?

   I'd like to take a shot at it again, with 4.0.

[0] Mixing LVD, Wide and narrow SCSI2 disks on the same cable can cause 
the strangest behaviour. :-)