Hi, I compiled an SBC kernel for my IIci where I attempted to hardcode the
root and swap partitions on different drives.  I then removed the swap
partition from my root partition drive and booted the machine.  It did
boot, and claimed that it could swap, though I could never verify that the
swapping actually worked, because I couldn't start enough processes to
force the machine to swap.  (My IIci has 20 MB RAM) I started some
plain-vanilla stuff like Emacs, and all of the daemons I could, but the
swapping never happened.  And if I used systat:iostat and vmstat, it
showed that there never was activity on my swap drive.  And besides, I
discovered in Berkeley Software Distribution's System Manager's Manual
that there should be a swap partition on the root partition drive.  The
system expects it, and it would take a lot of hacking to make it work
otherwise. 

I can't answer your second question, but I'll take a stab at the third.  I
would ensure that you have installed the updates to X for MacBSD.  The
first update was Xmacbsd.950912, which fixes some general problems with X
under MacBSD, and Xmacbsd.960127, which fixes some issues to do with the
internal video on the SE/30. They should be on
ftp.macbsd.com/pub/NetBSD/X. 

Regards,
Steve

On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Philip Schielke wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I've installed NetBSD 1.2 and X11R6 (the newest version) on my SE/30
> and I have a couple of problems.
> 
> 1)  I looked in the archive and found some discussion on having the root
>     and swap partitions on different drives.  This is what I am 
>     trying to do.  I changed the entry in /etc/fstab but when I boot
>     it says the swap device is not configured.  The swap drive has a MacOS
>     volume and the swap (SCSI 0).  Would the swap partition be sd0b?
>     I read something about rebuilding the kernal, but I'm not sure how
>     to do that.  Should I try rebuilding the devices in the installer?
> 
> 2)  The video sometimes goes from normal to reverse video to underline
>     (when not running X).  Should I try a different terminal emulation?
> 
> 3)  I can't get X to run.  The screen blanks and I get something like:
>     Screen 0 at 0x41ad040, 512 by 342, row B64, fbbase 0x7801040
>     and never get any farther.
> 
> I'd appreciate any help.  Thanks.
> 
> -Phil
>