Re: Installation Error For Mac68k NetBSD on SE/30

[Stan Johnson <userm57%yahoo.com@localhost>]

Hello,

I'm assuming the installation was done with the "modern" method and not
with the "traditional" method, since the traditional method doesn't seem
to work any more at all (it creates the wrong, older type, of ffs root
filesystem).

I think it would make sense (easy for me to say since I'm not much of a
programmer) to bring back the traditional method, since that would be
the fastest way to install on some slow machines such as the SE/30. Do
the installation on something faster, like a Beige G3 Desktop running
Mac OS 9.2.2, and it wouldn't be necessary to find a still-working SCSI
CD-ROM or wait overnight for a CD-based installation on 680x0 to finish.

The traditional method would have to be modified to support the more
modern ffs filesystem (so Mkfs would need to be updated, too), and the
one-GB-size limit on the rootfs would have to be changed. I have Think C
v5.0, and I can help with testing and maybe some basic troubleshooting.

The last time I installed NetBSD (9.0 I think) was on a IIci, and I then
moved the rootfs to an SE/30, but that process was pretty slow.

-Stan

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On 8/6/23 11:53 AM, John Klos wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>> Hi, I'm trying to install NetBSD on my SE/30. I'm running it with
>> Rominator II, 128MB of RAM, and a BlueSCSI. The BlueSCSI has a single
>> "physical" 6GB disc on it at SCSI #0, which has the following
>> partitions:
>> - Mac Driver partition
>> - Macintosh HD (HFS, around 2GB)
>> - Internal Storage (HFS, around 2GB)
>> - NetBSD Usr/Sys (Formatted with mkfs, a little under 2GB)
>> - NetBSD Swap (Formatted with mkfs, 32MB)
> 
> Looks good so far, except of course you don't need to format swap.
> 
>> I followed the instructions on the website, but I'm getting this error
>> when running installation program:
>> Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
>> failed mountfs(), error 22
>> Error mounting root.
>> mount root. : Undefined error: 0
>>
>> This makes me think there's something wrong with my filesystem, but
>> formatting the user/sys and swap filesystems seemed to work correctly.
>> Any idea what this could mean? Thanks in advance!
> 
> There's been talk about changing the docs for a while because the older
> MacOS tools aren't all that robust.
> 
> The better way to do an installation these days is to download an
> install kernel (mac68k/installation/instkernel), boot that with Booter,
> then use sysinst to format your partitions and install NetBSD.
> 
> I really should do a from-scratch run throuh and update the docs some
> time soon...
> 
> John