Subject: Re: Error lines booting Q700
To: Fabrizio Catalano <cata003@pn.itnet.it>
From: Dr. Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/28/1998 09:48:48
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Fabrizio Catalano wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I've succesfully installed netBSD 1.3.2 on my Quadra700 and booted using
> the GENERIC kernel; the machine works but I get some error lines during
> startup:
> ...
> nubus0 at mainbus0
> nubus0: failed to map slot 9, address 0xf9000000
> ...
> ...
> starting system logger
> checking for core dump...
> savecore: /netdsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Read: Invalid argument
> Jun 28 11.51.47 Quadra_700 savecore: /netdsd: kvm_dump_mkheader: Read:
> Invalid argument
> starting rpc daemons: portmap.
> ...

This problem usually happens when /netbsd is not a copy of the running
kernel. Did /netbsd get updated?

> Another question: How I can setup a swap partition on two different disks?
> 	ie. sd0b swap 20MB and sd1b swap 20MB  Total = 40MB

Put two swap lines in /etc/fstab. As of 1.3, swap is configured from
there, not the kernel config.

Take care,

Bill