Subject: SS20 installation woes
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Eric Dorman <eld@mpl.ucsd.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/09/1996 11:20:31
Greetings;
For a network research project I have obtained an underused (!)
SS20+32Mb+1Gdisk+Sun 4mm tape (Python) on which I've been trying to
install the NetBSD-1.2BETA stuff on. I have SunOS4.1.4 on it now (the
Solaris 2.5 got smushed by someone else) and am trying to install and
boot miniroot-12.fs. After writing miniroot onto /dev/rsd0b while
in singleuser mode, I reboot but cannot boot disk:b ..
dialog:
# dd if=/tmp/miniroot-12.fs of=/dev/rsd0b bs=20b conv=sync
512+0 records in
512+0 records out
# halt
Halted
Protram terminated
ok boot disk:b netbsd -s
<flash>
SPARCstation 20 ( 1 X RT625 ) blah
SX video ROM Rev. 2.22 32Mb blah
icon Ethernet address ... blah
Rebooting with command: disk:b netbsd -s
Boot device: /iommu/sbus/espdma@f,400000/esp@f,800000/sd#3,0:b \
File and args: netbsd -s
<disk click>
open: : No such file or directory
Data Access Exception
ok
I've set sunmon-compat? false and security-mode(?) none
before all this stuff, but just can't seem to get it to work.
Any ideas? It _looks_ as though the ROM can't read the filesystem
placed therein, but that's just a stab. If I try to copy and boot
the miniroot from /dev/rsd0h (a big partition) I receive a diagnostic
'Instruction Access Exception' w/o the open: error.
BTW the miniroot-12 is from ftp.netbsd.org and dated Jun28 00:08.
I'm at a loss..
Thanks,
Eric L. Dorman
eld@mpl.ucsd.edu