Re: bootloader issue

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

That problem was the one that David's fix covered.  The fix was tested to 
the point that we knew it unblocked the install, but we never got to the 
point where we could test the actual bootloader until now.

With regard to loadbsd -- what's the full command line you're using? 
According to docs Frank Lukas sent me, the -a option just loads to 
multi-user mode.  I haven't tried it yet, but I assume you'll need to 
somehow specify that the root filesystem should be loaded from the hard 
drive.

The loadbsd method sounds like a good workaround, but it would be great if 
we can get to a point where it's possible to boot NetBSD directly off of the 
HD.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Makinen" <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>
To: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>; "David Ross" 
<dross%pobox.com@localhost>
Cc: <port-atari%netbsd.org@localhost>
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2009 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


> On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > David Ross wrote:
> >
> > > But the BOOT kernel does boot.  And I successfully installed the sets 
> > > via
> > > CD-ROM!  The install completes successfully, but when the system is 
> > > rebooted
> > > I just get "Halting..." after the memory test.  This is probably from 
> > > the
> > > very first stage of the netbsd bootloader but I'm not really sure.  I 
> > > didn't
> > > try doing a complete zero of the disk before the install -- it's 
> > > conceivable
> > > that might help.
> >
> > Just FYI, I've replied to the PR:
> > (old firmware might not support >2GB partition on bootstrap)
> >
> > http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/netbsd-bugs/2009/01/03/msg008106.html
>
> I installed NetBSD 4 (base, etc and comp) installation sets without kernel
> (Gemdos 8+3 file name restriction messes up it's name and I'm using 
> loadbsd.ttp
> to launch NetBSD kernel from TOS). I was able to boot up system by using
> loadbsd.ttp with -a flag.
>
> I'm wondering if there's still following problem?
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-atari/2008/11/11/msg000109.html
>
> Could it be so simple issue that bootloader does not find kernel ?
>
> -Tuomo