Salutations!

Thanks for the advice on my previous problem. Having unchecked "Change monitor settings" and zapping the PRAM, I can now boot NetBSD 1.11 into Single User mode. Now I have two other problems:

1) When booting to Single User, the file system is always Read Only (contrary to what the manual says). Is there a way to change this so I don't have to "mount -w sd0a" each time?

2) When booting to Multi User, all diagnostics seem fine until I get a line saying something like "Getty[180]: Could not find /dev/ttyE0" on the console. After that all prompts cease. The monitor displays and reacts to keyboard inputs normally, but nothing typed evokes any response from the system.

I feel like I am missing something obvious, but can't figure out what it is. Any suggestions?

Regards,
Dale
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Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2001 21:50:37 -0400
Subject: Unable to boot NetBSD on Quadra 650
From: Dale Swanson <TestDir@mac.com>
To: <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
Message-ID: <B6E95EAC.2B1%TestDir@mac.com>

Salutations!Salutations!

The NetBSD System Manager's Manual is excellent. I used it as a guide in preparing a Mac 68k NetBSD system. Everything worked great until I got to the end of "Installing the NetBSD System." I made it to the step where I select Booting from the Options menu, then "Boot Now." I get a sequence of "+" separated numbers, some sort of quote about "then I sez...", and the screen goes white. At that point the disk stops all activity and there is no response from the keyboard or display on the monitor. The only response I can get from the computer is by pushing the interrupt switch on the front of the Mac, whereupon there is a short string of characters followed by a ">" and nothing else. I have repeated the whole process (including the install) with the same result.

Background:

I have a Quadra 650 with 525MB internal hard drive. I partitioned the drive in order to boot the Macintosh OS initially, then boot NetBSD on the same drive:
#0: Partition map (31.5K)
#1: Apple_Driver (16K)
#2: Apple HFS (101426K)
#3: Apple_UNIX_SVR2 (Root & Usr) (341043K)
#4: Apple_Unix (Swap) (86346K)
#5: Scratch(16K)

The Quadra has 40 MB of RAM and a 13 inch color display

The full NetBSD install is on Root & Usr. I followed the install instructions scrupulously and there were no anomalies.

I booted system 7.5.5 in the Mac OS partition with all extensions off. Then attempted to boot into NetBSD installed on sd0a, with the result described above.

I have reviewed all of the FAQs regarding install and complied with all of the suggestions to no avail.

Any suggestions?

Regards,
Dale