On Fri, 8 Mar 1996, Jeff Thieleke wrote:

> >                               A1200
> >                               68030 + MMU
> 
> Do you have a FPU also?  AFAIK, a FPU is required for NetBSD 1.1, but may or
> may not be necessary in NetBSD 1.1A (-current) because of the floating point
> emulator.

Yep I have.
  
> > Next I issued the command 'loadbsd -b netbsd' on my shell, all the sudden
> > I get a black screen nothing was working, so I tried the other
> > 'loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd' and still I got a black screen. So it made me
> > think I just though some of the programs (from WBStartup & MCP) &
> > patches (newicons,patchwpa8, ipatch, etc) I was running in the background
> > was causing the problem so I didn't want to disable the patches & boot up
> > prgs so I stop (Ctrl-D) startup-sequence half way giving a shell prompt
> 
> In my experience, starting up NetBSD from Workbench rarely works.  A 
> nifty solution is to get a utility like 'mousek' that can start different 
> sections of your s:startup-sequence.  With mousek, you could configure it 
> so that NetBSD starts up when you boot pressing a mouse button.  This 
> also saves time by not loading up any unnecessary AmigaDOS stuff.
> 
> 
> > only. I tried here 'loadbsd -b netbsd' finally it worked it gave me a
> > welcome msg (doesn't look like a welcome msg just bunch of garbage I
> > couldn't understand).
> 
> Is it really garbage (unreadable) or just information you don't understand
> yet?
> 

Yep its readable I not too sure what's going on.

> > Strange but shouldn't I get a pathname of a shell like 'INSTALL' doc say?
> > 
> > Well it didn't ask me so it kept on going until it ask me about
> > installation so I put 'y'. Next it asked me which device to use for root
> > so I put 'sd0' like the doc said. Suddenly things happen I noticed in a
> > quick glance errors such as 'unknowed dostype 0x4d534800 marking used'
> >                             'cannot mount root'
> 
> It sounds like you entered the wrong dostype with HDToolbox, hence the 
> "unknown dostype" error.  Make sure your root partition is dostype 
> 0x4e425207.

I set dostype to these settings on HDToolbox:
                         root = 0x4e425207
                         swap = 0x4e425301
                  usr & local = 0x4e425507

> Or maybe you need to enter sd0*, instead of sd0?  It has been so long 
> since I did it myself, but according to INSTALL:
> 
>      Then you will be prompted for a root device.  At this time type
>     'sd0*'

I try this time and see what happens.

> 
> > and then it was counting "4 3 2 1 succeded" and suddenly
> > BOOM CRASH RESET  (It didn't say that really), my machine resets.
> > I tried again the same thing happens, I tried also the other way
> > 'loadbsd -I ff -b netbsd' and still the same problem.
> > Thats it this where I got stuck now I don't know what to do next.
> 
> 
> Don't worry too much about the crash...NetBSD just doesn't like not having a 
> root partition.  Also, you don't have to bother with the loadbsd -I ff 
> either, since you have an IDE drive, and the -I ff argument is for SCSI 
> drives only.
> 
> The most important thing is to just keep going through the INSTALL notes 
> and don't give up.  I know it took me a few tries to get going, and then 
> a few startovers, but the end result to well worth the effort!
> 
> 
> 
> Jeff Thieleke
> 

Ok I let u know about 'sd0*'.

Sal