Complete failure at install.  It could be a problem with my CDROM drive or 
with the CD-R I burned from the multi-1 ISO image.

The machine won't boot from the multi-1 CD-R

Trying to read the miniroot.fs.gz results in read errors, some recoverable, 
some not.

Downloading miniroot.fs.gz from ftp.netbsd.org results in sysinst failures 
while trying to label the disk.

Sysinst appears to be trying to put a label in /tmp/disklabel and then use 
this label to write to the disk; however, the file isn't there.  I tried 
suspending the install and running ls -l /tmp.  There were no files listed 
in /tmp.

Given that the disk may not be working I did try using dd to copy sd0 onto 
sd1.  That worked ok so the sd1 disk is probably functional.

If I get a chance I'll try again tonight with the sparc64 ISO image.



At 09:33 AM 11/9/2005 +0100, edwin wrote:
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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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