Subject: 250494 Snapshot report
To: None <port-sparc@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu>
From: Adam W. Feigin <awf@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/26/1994 13:10:46
I've been holding off upgrading my system, but decided to take the
plunge now that the off_t changes have propagated into the source tree
completely. This morning, I downloaded the new snapshot, blew away my
old installation, and ran the install script.
Evidently, the dev.cpio.gz file doesn't contain any devices, despite
what the readme sort of indicates. I discovered this when I hung after
trying to boot. No worries, as I just hooked up the disk to another
sparcie, mounted up the root, and did 'sh MAKEDEV all', and then I was
up and running.
Hell, I was even able to generate a new kernel, but I'm having ahell
of a time getting it to boot. My system is installed on a disk that
I'd like to be sd2 (scsi ID 0), so that when I eventually bring it
home I dont need to be unplugging disks and changing SCSI id's all
the time. I have the following lines in my configuration file:
config netbsd root on sd2 swap on sd2 and sd0
tg0 at scsi? target 3
sd0 at tg0 drive 0
tg1 at scsi? target 1
sd1 at tg1 drive 0
tg2 at scsi? target 0
sd2 at tg2 drive 0
Unfortunately, in order to boot from this disk, I have to say:
boot sd(0,3,0)netbsd
It then boots, but panics because it thinks root is on sd3a, and not
sd2a. I believe this is because the eeprom has sd-targets=31204567;
however, if I change sd-targets in the eeprom to be 30124567, its all
confused about what disks are are what SCSI ID's.
Evidently, something has changed ( was running snapshot from 29 Mar
previously), because the kernel built from the same configuration file
was working perfectly for almost a month.
Is there an easy way to consolidate sd-targets in the eeprom and my
kernel configuration file so that things work as expected ?
Thanks in advance.
/AWF
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