Subject: Re: Reading old sun CD on NetBSD 1.4.1 or later?
To: NetBSD Bob <nbsdbob@weedcon1.cropsci.ncsu.edu>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 11/17/1999 10:23:34
On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, NetBSD Bob wrote:

> > 	Hmm - SunOS CDs are in Sun UFS format IIRC. Does you get any
> > 	panic message? (I'd definitely be trying this with the latest
> > 	-current)
> 
> At 2am I was not thinking that far ahead, so as to copy down the
> abort messages.  Frustration and sleep deprivation had begun to
> set in on the olde man.....(:+{{... From memory.....
> 
	I know that feeling :)

> There was a locking function of some kind called, and a short message of
> ``I'm locking myself'' or something like that, then  it immediately

	"Locking against myself"?

> went into the >>> prom prompt.  That is all I remember.  Is there
> a message log that I should be looking at that might catch some of
> the message output as it aborts?  One time, it went into the debugger,
> I think that was when I was trying to mount_cd9660.  The other mounts
> just aborted.
> 
	Hmm - it should wither always go into DDB or never - that is
	decidedly odd... Do you have DDB compiled in?

> I was using the  1.4.1, 1.4L, 1.4M kernels.  I was waiting until tomorrow
> for a snapshot from (forgot his name) so I can get my machine in sync
> sourcewise, before I go too much further.
> 
	That would be Matt.

> Let me copy down the info on tonights crashes, and get back.....(:+}}...

	Good luck!


		David/absolute