Subject: Re: Failure to complete boot of NetBSD 1.5
To: None <ISOTOPE181@aol.com>
From: Jeff Wyman <wysoft@wysoft.tzo.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/25/2001 22:08:55
Ah, I'm sort of guessing this one, because I don't really know the exact
error code. Still, it sounds suspicious. 

Did you remember to Make Devices in the Installer app?

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 ISOTOPE181@aol.com wrote:

> Dear NetBSD Programmers -
>     NetBSD is refusing to completely boot and dumps me into debug mode after the following error.
> 
> "panic: cnopen: cn_tab -> cn_dev == NODEV"
> "stopped in init at _cpu_Debugger+0x6: unlk a6"
> 
> I'm unsure whether this is simply a configuration problem, or whether it's inherent to my configuration. The loader suceeded in recognizing all connected devices, and suceeded in recognizing emulated FPU on the 68040 chip.
> 
> OS Loaded: NetBSD 1.5
> Included Sets: BASE, COMP, ETC & KERN
> 
> System Specifications
>     Performa 475
>     20MB physical ram
>     163MB HDD in following configuration:
>         20MB MacOS 8.1 (bare-minimum installation)
>         102MB root
>         40MB swap
>     Apple ADB extended key
>     Apple ADB mouse
>     *External SCSI Apple CDROM (2x)
>     *External 1GB SCSI drive
> 
> * - Attempted load with these devices in both on/off mode with no effect.
> 
>     If you would like any further information, please do not hesitate to ask.
> 
> Thanks!
> - Jeff Isaac
>