Subject: Re: booting 1.2 from sd0
To: David Rosenthal <dshr@vitria.COM>
From: None <david@mono.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/05/1996 18:32:22
One final idea - could you put a netbsd 1.2 kernel on the working
scsi disk (as '/netbsd.test' or something, and then try booting
single user into that kernel to see if its something to do with
the disk setup or purely the kernel...
On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, David Rosenthal wrote:
> I installed 1.2 from the FTPed files onto a freshly formatted wd0, and used
> it for the following steps.
>
> I copied using dump 0f - | ( cd /foo ; restore xf - ) the filesystems
> from wd0 to sd0.
>
> I put the 1.2 boot blocks onto sd0 using disklabel -B
>
> I built a kernel configed with root and swap on sd0 and installed it
> in the root of sd0. The first time I tried this wdc and wd* were
> included. The next time they were not included. It made no difference.
>
> I shut the system down, physically removed wd0 and tried to reboot from sd0.
> I tried this on two machines and got the same result on both.
>
> The hardware in question (except for the disk drives) was running NetBSD1.1
> (with both a 1.1 and a 1.2beta kernel) with root and swap on sd0, a
> different drive which, thank the Lord, I did not overwrite. It is still
> running 1.1 with a 1.2beta kernel.
>
> This is all the information I can give you. I can no longer repeat the
> experiment because I have had to return the sd0 on which I installed 1.2
> to its previous use.
>
> Can anyone report that they FTP-ed the binaries from NetBSD.org, installed
> them on a machine running from sd0, and had it work OK?
>
> David.
>