Re: hp aio : netbsd won't boot ...

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 25 Sep 2014 at 11:56, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:

> On 2014-09-25 11:22, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 02:59:11AM +0530, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> >> as i'd mentioned before, the "newfs" command failed to work during
> >> installation process.
> > 
> > this doesn't help
> 
> yeah, figured, that's why i'd sent the following mail too, somehow it 
> didn't make it through.
> 
> ----- another email sent to the list begins -----
> 
> okay, i retried installation of 6.1.4 on the system after disabling 
> 'uefi' boot option in the bios settings.
> 
> the installation stopped at the file system creation step, messages as 
> below;
> 
> Status: Command failed
> Command: /sbin/newfs -V2 -O 2 -b 32768 -f 4096 /dev/rwd0a
> Hit enter to continue
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> newfs: /dev/rwd0a: open for read: Device busy
> 
> i had faced a similar problem on a previous (dying) machine, thought it 
> to be because of the system's hdd.
> 
> now what i have is a brand new system, don't quite know how to proceed.
> 
> any help/pointers would be appreciated. :)
 
Hi

it might not help but on both NetBSD-6/i386 and current/amd64,
I've had the same error when I've previously used the utilities
and had various mounts active, both local partitions and nfs and
then went back to complete the install which then failed. After
rebooting and selelecting the installer there was no problem and
installs completed ok.


David