Subject: Re: Weirdness with ELF bootblocks
To: Jarkko Teppo <jate@UWasa.Fi>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-hp300
Date: 02/13/2001 17:13:50
Jarkko Teppo wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> The ELF bootblocks are giving me some headache. The system is:
> NetBSD 1.5R (MUULI) #0: Thu Jan  4 08:43:49 PST 2001
>     root@newmuuli:/usr/src/sys/arch/hp300/compile/MUULI
>     HP 9000/385 (33MHz MC68040 CPU+MMU+FPU, 4k on-chip physical I/D caches)
> 
> <snip>
> 
> (It's a 380 actually, the wait state jumper makes it lie)
> I have root on sd2a and the HP is set to select sd2 (1Z in this case) 
> automatically. However the bootblocks suggest booting from
> sd131a:netbsd, followed by a failed attempt with "bad adaptor number".

I've had my hp433 off for a little while, and got the same just now when
I powered it up (I can't remember if it was exactly sd131a, but it was
something strange).  I'll look into this some more...

> I got a "panic: bad dir" which ate away a sizable hunk of my fs. I'll
> downgrade this to 1.5 and continue experimenting with nfs-rooted machines.

I haven't seen any local filesystem problems :-(

Simon.
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