Re: bootloader issue

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

The -a flag works great for me, thanks!  (Tested with Izumi's netbsd-4 from 
http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/atari-4.0_STABLE-20090103/)

And some more good news -- there were no filesystem problems reported.  So 
the superblock issue is specific to that wierd HEAD / 1.6.1 combo-install I 
did.  Or worst case it's a bug that's specific to HEAD.  I'll do another 
HEAD install soon and will find out.

The only issue was that during boot I got:
savecore: can't find device 1352/192633
June 3 18:46:57 ataritt savecore: can't find device 1352/192633

Unless anyone knows what this is all about offhand, I'll file a PR on it 
after I observe the same thing on HEAD.

Anyway, this issue was non-fatal and I was able to boot up into the 
filesystem on my sd0.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
To: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
Cc: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>; "David Brownlee" 
<abs%netbsd.org@localhost>; <port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 3:17 AM, David Ross <dross%pobox.com@localhost> wrote:
> > With regard to loadbsd -- what's the full command line you're using?
> > According to docs Frank Lukas sent me, the -a option just loads to
> > multi-user mode.  I haven't tried it yet, but I assume you'll need to
> > somehow specify that the root filesystem should be loaded from the hard
> > drive.
> >
> > The loadbsd method sounds like a good workaround, but it would be great 
> > if
> > we can get to a point where it's possible to boot NetBSD directly off of 
> > the
> > HD.
>
> I have kernels on my IDE disk and NetBSD installation on SCSI disk. For me
> it's enough to load kernel with just -a flag (it founds root on sd0a).
> If needed you should be able to use -b flag in addition to specify root 
> device
> on boot.
>
> -Tuomo