Re: NetBSD 10.1 on Hades

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

Hi,
 
> I tried, but there is some problem with the drives.

Wow. Working Hades in 2025!?

AFAIK the HADES kernel has not been tested for (at least) 20 years
so there might be many possible bugs, as I had to fix several bugs
in MILAN kernels back in 2018:
 https://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-atari/2018/01/29/msg000578.html

> First it didn't read the diskette correctly to load SYSINST.FS.

How did you load kernel and try to load sysinst.fs?
By LOADBSD.TTP with "-b" option to specify "md2" to load sysinst.fs
from a floppy?
 https://x.com/tsutsuii/status/1211171569436786688
 https://x.com/tsutsuii/status/1211174662320689153

> I 
> bypassed this by moving SYSINST to the swap partition.

I assume you have any label on your disk, right?

> Then it didn't really want to prepare the disk, only on one occasion it 
> succeeded. Finally, at the end, it was unable to read the CD.

On Milan there was an interrupt issue around secondary IDE
(it was depending on BOOT ROM versions).
 https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/2d53b48
 https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/21d771a

I'm not sure about Hades hardware configuration, but we should
confirm all possible regressions (or unimplemented/incomplete features)
step by step.

> I tried using an unmounted partition, but it mostly ends with a "device 
> not configured" error.

Anyway, if you see any kernel message of NetBSD/atari 10.1
on your Hades console, it's a great news for me ;-)

Thanks,
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Izumi Tsutsui