Subject: problem installing 1.1
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@isds.Duke.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/30/1995 09:42:31
I'm having a problem installing 1.1 on a 3max (40MB RAM, onboard + 1
TC ethernet adapter, 1 rz55, 2 rz56, cfb).  My installation route
was a little creative, so that might be my problem.  

Bascially, no matter what kernel I use ( kernel from miniroot,
gennetbsd.aout, arz2netbsd.aout, and dbg.rz2.aout) all grabbed from
ftp.netbsd.org), it loads the kernel and gets all the way to 'copy out
(something) for init' & hangs.

Does anybody know what's wrong? 


My installation went like this:

In ultrix:

Label an rz56 (rz2) thusly:
# /dev/rrz2c:
type: SCSI
disk: rs56
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 54
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 810
cylinders: 1632
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

7 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    65520       16    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0*- 80*)
  b:   131072    65536      swap                        # (Cyl.   80*- 242*)
  c:  1299174        0    unused     1024  8192         # (Cyl.    0 - 1603*) 
  d:   659768   196608    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  242*- 1057*)
  e:   659768   163840    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  202*- 1016*)
  f:    12800   856376    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl. 1057*- 1073*)
  g:   659768   196608    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  242*- 1057*)


dd the miniroot on /dev/rrz2f 

In NetBSD:

Boot off an old rz55 that has NetBSD/pmax -current (circa May, 1995)
fsck & mount /dev/rz2f, grab the kernel that's sitting there (why? To
get support for my TC ethernet card because I can't use thinnet
in this room).

Boot the 1.0 root partition using that 1.1 miniroot generic kernel
that's now there.

newfs /dev/rrz2a
newfs /dev/rrz2g
mount /dev/rz2a /mnt
mkdir /mnt/usr
mount /dev/rz2g /mnt/usr

nfs-mount a partition containing the 1.1 binary dist, & untar that
onto /mnt

copy the generic miniroot kernel to /mnt

sync;sync;sync;halt



Any ideas?  Thanks!

Drew

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