Subject: Re: booting 1.2 from sd0
To: David Rosenthal <dshr@vitria.COM>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@fwi.uva.nl>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 11/07/1996 11:21:54
Quoting David Rosenthal,
> (Just to reiterate, more for my benefit than anything else :)
> You've config'ed a kernel without wdc or wd*, and with
> 'config netbsd root on sd0 swap on sd0', and
> tried 'disklabel -B' on the scsi disk under 1.2 as well?
> Hmm, if it cant find the swap maybe somethings up with the
> disklabel & 1.2 is more picky - can you post a copy of
> your scsi disk label? (Does this happen on both scsi drives?)
> 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
[...]
What this looks like to me, is that the disklabel on your sd0 drive
says that it has type "ESDI", so the bootcode assumes that it has
a wd disk in its hands and tries to use it. It might be good having
a look at the disklabel.
- Frank