Subject: Re: problems installing NetBSD 2.1 on ultra 60
To: Steven Grunza <steven_grunza@ieee.org>
From: edwin <edwin@spacebugs.nl>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/09/2005 09:33:18
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I'll also test this later this week. at the moment I don't have much
time, but when possible I get into it.
But I'm very curious about your test results.

Steven Grunza wrote:

> I have an Ultra 60 /w/ an IBM DDRS39130SUN9.0G as the boot disk and
> an unused IBM DNES30917SUN9.0G as a currently unused second drive.
>
>
> The controller is esiop0 (Symbios Logic 53c875)
>
> It is currently running 2.0.2 but will probably change to 2.1
> before it goes into production.
>
> Since the machine is currently not in production it could be used
> to test various builds.
>
> I plan on running 2.1 (plus today's security updates) soon and will
> let you know if I have any odd problems with the disks.
>
>
> At 07:50 PM 11/8/2005 +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 09:45:44AM +0100, edwin wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> After installing NetBSD 2.1 on an Ultra 60, some strange things
>>>
>> happend.
>>> When I do an ls -al /etc , no files seems to exist in this dir.
>>> However, when I do an vi /etc/rc.conf There's no problem in
>> edditing
>>> the file.
>>>
>>> If I boot into single user mode, and do again an ls -al /etc/
>>> all
>> the
>>> files get listed.
>>>
>>> So I tried to make a tar file of /etc in single user mode, and
>>> untarred this in multi usermode. Next thing I know, all files
>>> and dir in / are not listed with ls
>> -al /
>>> But cd /usr works. and an ls -al /usr also.
>>>
>>> This machine is running NetBSD 2.0 for more then 4 months now
>> without
>>> any problem. So I figured, maybe its just my disk , this seems
>>> a filesystem
>> problem.
>>> Instead of an upgrade, I tried a fresh install of NetBSD 2.1.
>>> Hopefully I recieve errors when the filesystem are created,
>>> and
>> to go
>>> from there. So I downloaded the NetBSD 2.1 iso, and checked the
>>> MD5SUM which
>> is ok.
>>> The install starts without any problem, and after saying yes to
>>> the partition scheme, I entered a name for the disk. But by
>>> writing the disklabel to disk , I recieved the error:
>> disklabel
>>> command not found.
>>>
>>> After this advanture, I switched back to NetBSD 2.0. dmesg and
>>> other information is lost with the reinstall. But when needed,
>>> I can reproduce the errors and willing to do tests.
>>>
>>> Hopefully someone could help, or give me a direction.
>>
>> You have a scsi drive connected to a esiop adapter ? There seems
>> to be changes between 2.0 and 2.1 in the esiop driver which cause
>> issues with some disks. I still need to setup a box to try to
>> reproduce this (the model of drive you're using would help me).
>>
>> -- Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> NetBSD: 26 ans
>> d'experience feront toujours la difference --
>
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