On 06/11/15 07:18, David Brownlee wrote:
On 11 June 2015 at 13:00, William A. Mahaffey III <wam%hiwaay.net@localhost> wrote:On 06/11/15 06:14, David Brownlee wrote:OK, I'm up to the (try to) install, & hit a minor snag. I prepped my various filesystems closely following the attached notes, posted earlier in this thread & now cleaned up to reflect what I actually did in the last part of the install (as well as I can from memory). In particular, I prepped the root filesystem to be bootable. I then rebooted the box & removed the USB key, hopefully to reboot into an install environment upon reboot. Instead, I get an endless string of messages: init: can't exec getty (/usr/libexec/getty) for port /dev/console: no such file or directory. I rebooted again (hit the reset button) & inserted the USB install er back into the USB drive. It was acknowleged during boot, & I have the BIOS set to try to boot from the USB device 1st, then try hard drives next. Nonetheless, it still apparently tries to boot from the HDD's, & returns to that endless string of init messages. More pilot, error, I assume, but how do I get around this ? Any clues appreciated. TIA & have a good one.Do you have a RAID1 set to autoconfigure as root? If so, it will 'steal' root even when you boot off a USB key or other.*Aaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh*, that explains much !!!!If you drop to the boot prompt and 'boot netbsd -a' you should be asked for a root device (among other items:)That's where I seem to be stuck, I don't recall an opportunity to do that, when & where do I (try to) drop to the boot prompt ? TIA & thanks for the reply :-) ....Should be at the very first NetBSD boot loader prompt - when it counts down
OK, I saw it, it said 'hit <ESC> to boot' & nothing else, about 2/3 of the way down the screen, how do I drop to the boot prompt ? TIA & thanks :-) ....
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