On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Mike Pumford wrote:

> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Has anyone got a 1.5a2 installation kernel?? I am after reinstalling
> > netbsd on either an idefs (simtec) hard drive  or a cumana scsi2-linked
> > 4.5gb hard drive. Will the installation on either of these card work??
> > Which is the best one to use for netbsd nowadays?? 
> >
> IDE. There have been no updates to the Cumana SCSI driver AFAIK. I 
> suspect Chris Gilbert may have 1.5ALPHA2 install kernels as a side 
> effect of his CD preparations for the RiscOS 2000 show NetBSD stand. 

one emailing to matt@drunk.custard.org would be cool ;)

> 
> 
> > I have previously used netbsd on the idefs card, but after upgrading to
> > riscos 4 i reformatted all the machines drives and deleted netbsd. Since
> > then attempts to reinstall using a 1.4 installation kernel on the idefs
> > card have failed with an odd error, possibly linked to the f+ format of
> > the idefs drive i am trying to use. bb_riscbsd is reporting negative
> > values (for some reason) - i assume this isn't helping matters, since
> > the installation kernel boots, probes the hardware and returns correct
> > devices, then gets to the bit where sysinst is run and says the
> > simtec card/hd/cable may be faulty, then the installer gets stuck not
> > being able to see the hard drive....
> > Any recommendations anyone??
> > 
> The card/cable fault error is not a problem. My machine sometimes boots 
> reporting that but the drives work just fine. The problem is that 
> unless bb_riscbsd is run there is nothing to tell NetBSD where the end 
> of your filecore partition is. When formatting the IDE disk did you 
> leave a space for NetBSD? IIRC the Simtec formatter can do the same 
> magic that bb_riscbsd does anyway assuming that you don't make the 
> filecore partition take up the whole disk. 

The drives appear function fine, even though it does report a fault. I
did leave a bit of space at the end of the 8gb disc...6gb to be precise
;) The rest is a 2gb filecore partition

I assume that bb_riscbsd reporting very odd values isn't helping?? Is
bb_riscbsd riscos 4/F+ compatible


cheers,

matt