Subject: assorted fun
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: None <rick@snowhite.cis.uoguelph.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/02/1995 17:30:19
Just thought I'd see if anyone else out there had already bumped into/fixed
any of these...

I have built a root fs and kernel from NetBSD-current of about two weeks
ago and have it booting single user on a uvaxii, but have run into the
following problems:

- It accesses the file system read-only fine, but trashes any new files it
  creates. Fsck finds the inode type bad after you reboot and fsck the file
  system.

- Disklabel always seems to complain that the "c" partition is the wrong
  size (either to big or too small/offset) no matter what size you make
  it, including the size reported by the driver for the drive. (It currently
  talks to the disk, reporting it's unlabelled, but I can't seem to come
  up with a way to get the dang label on it.:-)

- Assorted utilities segentation fault. (Since ones I had built from
  NetBSD-1.0 sources with vax libc support merged in from 4.4BSD-Lite are ok,
  I've got a hunch this one is a libc problem, but...) Since the kernel
  doesn't write a core dump, it's a little hard to tell what is causing them
  to grap out.

Anyhow, I'm having fun and will plug away at them if nobody else knows how
to fix em, rick