Subject: Problems booting - please HELP !
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Alessandro Lofaro <cu162@fim.uni-erlangen.de>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/03/1996 10:01:44
Hello to all: sorry to bother you, but I've a little problem (which could be
a little trouble, in effect). I use a PB190cs (IDE HD, colour display, 68LC40),
and I've installed NetBSD on a zip disk (because is seen as a SCSI disk by the
mac): I've created a A/UX partition "Root&Usr" (80 MB), a "Swap" A/UX (15 MB)
and a little MacOS partition (1 MB) to hold the booter. I did mkfs whitout
troubles (I got some scsciread errors, and I needed to enter values for the
formatting variables myself - mkfs did only see 40 sectors/track and the number of blocks in the partition), excepted the fact it said it was formatting 83.9
MB instead of 80 MB (after many trials, I used the escamotage of leaving some
unallocated clusters - 63): I used the installation program and installed all. When I ran the booter (1.9.2) it rebooted the computer, ejecting the zip disk, which I reinserted promptly, but it stopped with this screen:
Bootstrapping NetBSD/mac68k
Faked range to byte 0x1000000
Bootstrapping the pmap system
Pmap bootstrapped
panic: don't know how to relocate video!
Stopped at _Debugger+0x6:unlk a6
db>
When I got this screen, the keyboard was unuseful, and I was forced to
reboot the computer by force.
I've some questions I hope someone can kindly answer:
1) Is the trouble with the fact that the zip disk is ejected ?
2) If it is so, there is a way to force the exit from the debugger
and continue the bootstrap ?
3) If the trouble is with something other, what could be and how could
I solve the situation ?
4) I've tried to work on the Booter configuration, obtaining the same
results all the times: I've seen that there is an "MacOS" option
in the kernel location - is this an indication that I can use
NetBSD by creating a partition in the zip and then making it bootstrap
from a kernel on my (IDE) MacOS HD ?
Forgive me for the lenght of this message, but I tried to give the maximum
number of particulars (my PB has 16 MB of RAM): maybe you will be able
to tell me if this is a configuration error or something else ?
Thank you very much for your time and (I hope) help.
Alessandro Lofaro