Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax-2.1 installation problems
To: Charlie ROOT <root@dynamite.narpes.com>
From: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@bsdprojects.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/05/2006 01:27:20
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Salut,
On Sat, Mar 04, 2006 at 11:28:19PM +0000, Charlie ROOT wrote:
> I recall that the 3100 ROM SCSI driver has a problem with large
> disks. The boot sector program uses the ROM driver to locate and
> load the NetBSD kernel. So how large is your SCSI-disk? How
> large is the NetBSD root partition, and where on the disk is it?
The root disks we tried were 1001 and 200MB in size. We tried NetBSD
1.6.2, 2.1 and 3.0 with different results:
1.6.2: the boot CD got stuck after discovering its file system type
2.1: installboot segfaults on the following command:
% installboot /dev/rsd0d /usr/mdec/sdboot
However, as it turned out,
% installboot /dev/sd0d /usr/mdec/sdboot
didn't segfault, and even did the right thing, so this may be a
a) documentation bug
b) error handling bug
3.0: kernel panic when labeling the disk
So we do have the system running in the meanwhile, however, it takes
a decent amount of interaction because the installer uses the first
installboot command.
Tonnerre
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