Subject: Re: how to boot with GENERIC.fs
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Wada Tatsuaki <wada@faraday.ee.ibaraki.ac.jp>
List: port-alpha
Date: 03/26/1999 15:18:34
Thanks for quick responce to my question, Ross.
>2. Anyway, you have GENERIC.fs in the snapshot. You need to write that to
>a floppy with a dd(1) command:
>
> dd bs=18k if=GENERIC.fs of=/dev/rfd0a
>
>3. You then do a "boot -fl n dva0" and tell it sd0 when it asks you for
>"root device?".
I tried the above precedure but afer loading netbsd kernel, the booting was stopped with the following messages:
cpu0 at mainbus 0: ID 0(primary), 21164A(pass2)
.
.
pci0 at cia0 bus0
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
ahc0 at pci0 dev6 function 0
unexpected machine check:
mces = 0x1
vector = 0x670
param = 0xfffffc0000006068
pc = 0xfffffc00004f0c88
ra = 0xfffffc00004f0c68
curproc = 0xfffffc00005c7a38
pid = 0, comm =
panic: machine check
stopped in at 0xfffffc000051e8a4: ret zero, (ra)
db>
I've tried a few times and always got the same messages when booting with GENERIC.fs although the kernel on the boot floppies (disk1of2 and disk2of2) booted on my lx164.