Subject: Re: help with A3000
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@cs.orst.edu>
From: None <rhealey@aggregate.com>
List: amiga-dev
Date: 05/23/1994 09:52:49
> > > The machine in question (coredump) is mine. Thorpej and I are trying to
> > > get NetBSD running on it. I have tried all of the kernels from
> > > ftp.eunet.ch with varying success. All the kernels (with the exception
> > > of 744.a3000) boot, run for a few moments, and then just hang.
> > > vmunix.744.a3000 hangs with a 'no suitable root' - odd, since the others
> > > mount BSDR just fine...
> >
Note:
The new kernels, post config.new switchover, will hurl on harddrives
that secpercyl != ntracks * nheads in the SCSI inquiry. My
Seagate 1G is like that and I had to modify disksubr.c to use
the value in the rdb rather than ntracks * nheads when the
two values weren't equal.
I'll try to get the changes to chopps as soon as I can figure out
how to get them off the disk; no working floppy driver and the
networking stuff is shakey...
Looks like there's been gobs of m68k changes to both m68k/hp300
tree so it will probably be a while before the amiga tree is
stable enough to compile again... B^(. I did get the le driver to
config but the vendor ID part of the ether address doesn't
grab, it's all zeros for some reason... Maybe it knows about C=?
It is a C= ethernet board afterall... Nahhh, I'm just being
paranoid... B^).
-Rob
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