At 3:23 AM -0400 7/17/00, Chris wrote:
>on 7/17/00 12:21 AM, Henry B. Hotz at hotz@jpl.nasa.gov wrote something
>like:
>
> > At 12:35 AM -0700 7/16/00, Kevan Olhausen wrote:
> >> scsi-int/sd@1:0. After that message comes up it just stops loading after
>
>    Shouldn't it be scsi-int/sd@X:[filename if needed],[partition number]
>translating what you have should be scsi-int/sd@1:,0

No.  It's sd@<target ID>:<partition number>,<filename>.  For ATA 
disks the target can be 0 or 1 (master or slave).  For SCSI target is 
the scsi ID.


> > I'm suspicous that it has something to do with the nvramrc patches,
> > since it was after I downloaded System Disk and ran it that I started
> > having these problems, but OTOH I have the same problem at home where
> > I've only ever used Boot Variables.
>
>    Not likely, do you have the boot-device, boot-file, and load size set
>correctly?

AFAIK.

> > I haven't noticed this, but do you only get the "no active package"
>
>    I get this when booting the floppy image from 1.4.1 (boot.fs) it's
>harmless AFAIK.

Whenever I get that message I sometimes get some numbers like it's 
trying to load an executable, but then it just dies and I have to do 
the three-finger salute.  I think sometimes it returns without 
attempting a load, but I can't remember for sure.

> > I need to pay more attention to these ordering issues since it seems
> > to me that part of my problem may be that OF does not clean up after
> > an error properly.  Hence I may have falsely ruled out valid
> > procedures.
>
>    It certainly doesn't with IDE/ATA devices IMHO :)
>
> > I've never seen the db> prompt.
>
>    db> is the NetBSD Kernel debugger. The only way you can get that is if
>the netbsd had indeed loaded, if you're getting no active package, then I
>think the kernel is indeed running. It sounds like your system is running,
>but you just can't see anything and it has no place to output to so it jumps
>back to the debugger. I'm rather baffled by that.

I thought you were talking about an OF thing.  I've always died 
inside OF, or gone to full multi-user.


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