Subject: swap on sd1b?
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: None <Todd.Williamson@cs.cmu.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 07/23/1994 00:57:23
Well, I decided I'd finally try out NetBSD 1.0a. Since I need to have a
stable system running here, I figured "Hey, I'll just clear off a hard
disk, install 1.0a on it, and then I can boot whichever system I need."
So I cleared off my 270 MB sd1 drive, partitioned it so that it had its
own swap space, downloaded the July 13 binary snapshot, and installed
it.
Whenever I try to boot off that drive, I get a panic right after it says
"changing root device to sd1a".
The error message is "swfree error 6" I think - it reboots too fast for
me to be sure.
The funny thing is, if I copy my 0.9 kernel onto that disk, it boots
fine until it can't load 1.0a's /bin/sh.
On a hunch, I swapped the SCSI id's of the first two drives, and it
turns out that 1.0a will boot fine if the drive is sd0.
So, am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?
The system: 486DX266, Bustek 542B, 16MB RAM, a bunch of SCSI devices
(three 270 MB disks and a CDROM).
Thanks,
-Todd.
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