Subject: Update to new user gets bomb in booter
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Denton Gentry <Denny.Gentry@Eng.Sun.COM>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 07/19/1996 15:29:09
Yesterday I reported a problem with bombing in the booter. Last night
as a shot in the dark I downloaded Booter 1.8 from eskimo.com to try.
It booted right up, no problem. I am now a happy netbsd user.
So my problem is in Booter 1.9.2, not in the netbsd kernel or
the installation. Is there anything further I can do to diagnose
the problem in order for it to be fixed in later Booter versions?
I can install Macsbug if someone tells me what information
from the debugger would help.
Denny
> I am attempting to install NetBSD for the first time. The Booter
> (1.9.2) crashes with an Unimplemented Trap whenever I try to boot.
> The last few messages on the console are:
>
> sizeof struct exec = 32
> read_bsd_block(): Reading block 1184
> Reading 8192 bytes (16 blocks) from scsi (0, 68168)
> *Magic = NMAGIC (read-only text)
> MID_M68K executable: entry 0x3356
>
> The I get a Mac Bomb dialog: 'Sorry, a system error occured.
> "Booter 1.9.2" Unimplemented trap'
>
>
> I get this same bomb whether booting from the NetBSD partition or
> from the kernel file in MacOS. I've experimented with the Booter's
> Auto-Size RAM option but get the same bomb regardless.
> Since the bomb comes from MacOS I suppose the NetBSD kernel had
> not taken over yet.
>
> I grabbed the 1.2BETA tarballs from ftp.eskimo.com, along with the
> GENERIC_64 kernel. I used Booter 1.9.2, also grabbed from eskimo.
>
> The machine is an SE/30 with 8 MB RAM. It has a Quantum disk on SCSI 0
> using HDT 1.6 formatter. It was freshly installed System 7.5 with all
> INITS&cdevs removed save MODE32(7.5) and the Memory cdev.
> I've experimented with restoring some of the other INITs and cdevs
> in case NetBSD expects them to be in the memory map, but I still
> get a bomb. The machines is running in 32 bit mode.
>
> Can anyone suggest what the problem might be, or something else I can try?