I am affraid I don't understand what you are
suggesting.  Less /kern/msgbuf?  What exactly does
that mean.

do you mean boot with args in the hpcboot?

Sorry, but the answer confused me more.
--- Matthew Orgass <darkstar@city-net.com> wrote:

> On 2004-08-11 dennisjscott@yahoo.com wrote:
> 
> > First I tried the 2 cf card attempt. with the 128
> > being wd1 and 2.2gig being wd0.  I run the hpcboot
> > from the wd1 and select to boot from netbsd.gz
> select
> > nec mobilepro 780 from dropdown and hit boot.
> 
>   This should work well.
> 
> > failed: command failed
> > newfs /dev/rwd0a
> > newfs:/dev/rwd0a: open for read: device not
> configured
> 
>   It looks like there is a problem writing the disk
> label.  Either that or
> the disk is not detected properly or has errors. 
> First try less
> /kern/msgbuf (skip over some nulls at the beginning)
> and check that the
> attach messages are as expected and there are no
> disk errors that somehow
> got lost in sysinst.  You can also try mounting a
> dos partition on the
> disk and writing to it (if you change the size and
> are leaving it in the
> final setup, make sure it gets reformatted by CE
> before trying to use it.
> Don't attempt to use newfs_msdos, as it doesn't work
> well.).
> 
> If all that looks fine, try "disklabel /dev/wd0" and
> see if that looks
> like the partition map you set.  If not, I don't
> know much about how
> sysinst is working now, but you can do the label
> manually by "disklabel
> wd0 > /tmp/dl", edit that with vi (if you use a
> single partition you can
> get the sector values from fdisk.  I recommend no
> swap on cf due to the
> write limits), and then do "disklabel -r -R /dev/wd0
> /tmp/dl" to label the
> disk.  Then if there are no errors, "disklabel
> /dev/wd0" it again and see
> if it stuck.  If it did, try sysinst again.  If you
> don't want to do this
> manually or hit errors, post what you find in the
> dmesg (msgbuf) and
> disklabel.  Someone else may also have a better idea
> what precicely is
> going on.
> 
> Matthew Orgass
> darkstar@city-net.com
> 
> 



		
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