In article <199911240402.WAA17938@fnord.io.com>,
grntiger <grntiger@io.com> wrote:
>   I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.4/sparc. I FTP'ed the gzipped miniroot.
>On my SLC running SunOS 4.1.1, the gzipped file has a correct checksum and
>ungzips correctly. In the course of my experiments, I dd'ed the uncompressed
>miniroot to several different partitions on several different disks using
>the specified "dd if=miniroot-1.4.fs of=/dev/... bs=20b conv=sync"
>incantation. Attempting to boot from any of them ("boot sd(...)netbsd -s")
>got as far as enumerating devices, then crashed immediately after finding
>the floppy controller with "data fault: pc=... adr=... ser=80<INVAL>".
>This machine has been functioning fine for years under SunOS 4.1.1.
>
>   I moved the same disk over to a 4/200. It gets as far as probing the
>SCSI bus and finding the disk before panicing with the same problem.
>
>   It's really weird for two machines to panic with the same problem unless
>the problem is in the miniroot. Everything appears to be OK as far as
>having the gzipped file, since the checksum is OK. Is my gunzip hosed
>somehow? If anybody can give the the BSD checksum for the uncompressed
>miniroot, that would help. Should I be doing the dd differently?

I think that you are hitting a problem with the floppy driver... Argh,
another unfinished project I have not been working on since May. Try
building a kernel sans floppy...

christos