Subject: Re: NWS 3410 install : still trying
To: port-newsmips <port-newsmips@netbsd.org>
From: Emmanuel Chaput <Emmanuel.Chaput@enseeiht.fr>
List: port-newsmips
Date: 05/22/2003 09:26:53
Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <3ECB7B8E.1020607@enseeiht.fr>
> you Emmanuel.Chaput@enseeiht.fr wrote:
> 
> [well, if you don't mind, please Cc: the list to share info..]

    Ho yes ! Sorry, I thought I was replying to the list ...

> Hmm, if you chose default parition, it should be Ok.
> 
>>>At least, sd0a (root partition) must start at sector zero
>>>to install bootblock which can be loaded by PROM.

    Here is the disklabel output. Looks good, no ? It says 8 partitions
while there are only 4 of them, is it OK ?

# disklabel sd0
# /dev/rsd0c:
type: unknown
disk: mipsbsd
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 9
sectors/cylinder: 567
cylinders: 1476
total sectors: 843284
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]
  a:    131544         0     4.2BSD   1024  8192 16448   # (Cyl.    0 - 31)
  b:    132678    131544       swap                      # (Cyl.  232 - 465)
  c:    843284         0     unused      0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 
1487*)
  g:    579062    264222     4.2BSD   1024  8192 46344   # (Cyl.  466 - 
1487*)
#

 > You can see if boot loader is written properly by commands
 > like "dd if=/dev/rsd0c | hexdump -Cv" and the first 16 bytes
 > should be like this:
 > 00000000  10 00 00 7f 00 00 00 00  19 90 01 06 00 00 00 00 
|................|

    It does ! The 16 first bytes look correct ! Maybe a wrong
bootloader ?

> Hmm, then NWS-3410 should have the same frame buffer with NWS-3470.
> I'll add the info into docs. BTW, what display do you use for your 3410?

   An old B&w display Sony "gave" us with the 3410, it's written
"moniterm vcx1000" on its back ...

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