Re: Question on the images in /miniroot

[<dross00%hotmail.com@localhost>]

Last night I managed to get my Riebl card working on 3.1.1!  From the 
sysinst filesystem I just drop to a shell and set it up with ifconfig.  I'm 
then able to connect to ftp.netbsd.org, etc.  Fantastic.

On to the next challenge...

Everything seems to indicate that sysinst.fs is the way to go, and 
prepare.fs / miniroot.fs are legacy.  So I went to kick off an install 
through sysinst and it was unable to partition the disk, giving me an error 
that /etc/disktab could not be opened.  This appears to be because the / 
filesystem is read-only and the file does not exist, just as this guy 
documented last December:

http://archives.devshed.com/forums/bsd-93/install-37470-could-not-open-etc-disktab-using-sysinst-fs-2388826.html

I have a hunch this may have something to do with the fact that 
"mount_kernfs /kern /kern" doesn't do anything.  Even if / is read-only, it 
should be able to mount the kernel parameter namespace under /kern, right?

Sometime in the next few days I'll jump back a few releases and see if I can 
get to one where the / filesystem isn't read-only and/or mount_kernfs works. 
Then I think I should be able to go through sysinst no problem.

David Ross
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From: <dross00%hotmail.com@localhost>
Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 10:29 PM
To: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Cc: <port-atari%NetBSD.org@localhost>; <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Subject: Re: Question on the images in /miniroot

> Unfortunately the <Alt>-<LeftShift>-<F9> sequence doesn't do anything, at 
> least with the pre-built 4.0 BOOT kernel on netbsd.org.
>
> But as it turns out, if I wait for a few minutes, NetBSD 4.0 actually 
> boots past the point where I had previously noted that it freezes.  It 
> gets up until it prints this line:
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> At that point I left it for maybe 20 minutes and it didn't get any 
> further.
>
> David Ross
> dross%pobox.com@localhost
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 8:28 AM
> To: <dross00%hotmail.com@localhost>
> Cc: <port-atari%NetBSD.org@localhost>; <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
> Subject: Re: Question on the images in /miniroot
>
> > > As described above, the 4.0 kernel appears to have a bug.  It's not 
> > > clear if
> > > it's just my hardware, but I suspect this will happen on any TT030.  As
> > > described in my previous mail, the 4.0 kernel locks up on boot after 
> > > "kbd0
> > > at mainbus0".
> >
> > Can you get ddb(4) prompt at that point?
> > <Alt>-<LeftShift>-<F9> might invoke it as noted in ddb(4) man page.
> > ---
> > Izumi Tsutsui