Hi ppl,

I have been struggling to install NetBSD on my cobalt Qube 2 .

I have followed the steps on http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/cobalt/faq.html.

Some details on my configuration 

# fdisk
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 8912 heads: 15 sectors/track: 63 (945 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 8912 heads: 15 sectors/track: 63 (945 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 131 (Linux native)
    start 63, size 31328 (15 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder    0, head   1, sector  1
        end: cylinder   33, head   3, sector 17
1: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 42336, size 8379504 (4091 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder   44, head  12, sector  1
        end: cylinder  719, head  14, sector 63
2: <UNUSED>
3: <UNUSED>



partition> E
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: ESDI
disk: QUANTUM FIREBALL
label: cylinders: 8912
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 945
cylinders: 8912
total sectors: 8421840
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
  c:  8379504    42336     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.   44*- 
8911)
  d:  8421840        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 
8911)
  e:    31328       63 Linux Ext2        0     0         # (Cyl.    0*- 
33*)
  f:  8379504    42336     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.   44*- 
8911)


# more fstab
#       $NetBSD: fstab.wd,v 1.3 2000/06/19 18:32:08 soren Exp $

/dev/wd0c       /       ffs     rw              1 1
/dev/wd0e       /stand  ext2fs  rw              1 2
#/dev/wd0f      none    swap    sw              0 0



OK, is this problem related to partitioning  ?

I have put this  kernel 

ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/cobalt/snapshot/1.5.3_RC2-20020428/binary/kernel/ 
netbsd.GENERIC.gz

into the /boot directory and renamed in to vmlinux_raq-2800.gz


When I reboot I get the error bellow.

syncing disks... done
rebooting...

 Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999

 1.LCD Test................................PASS
 2.Controller Test.........................PASS
 5.Bank 0:.................................16M
 6.Bank 1:.................................0M
 7.Bank 2:.................................0M
 8.Bank 3:.................................0M
 9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hdc1
Decompressing - done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
get_root_dev: nr_boot_failures 0x00000002 exceeds maxtries 0x00000002 for 
boot_i
ndex 0x00000000


 *** halting ***




Any ideas on this. I knoiw it'll be something  very simple.

Thanks in advance.



Regards,

./John