I've had a fun time today installing NetBSD/sparc. I decided to install
the snapshot, but I couldn't boot it from floppy, it died of illegal
instruction. I managed to do quite well with a 1.4.1 floppy, but the
bootsector was my downfall. I couldn't manage to install the elf
bootblock with the a.out installboot binary (hardly a surprise). (Will
the a.out bootblock work with the snapshot?)

I didn't get discouraged and tried a miniroot-approach. The funny thing
with dd:ing the miniroot to the swap-system was this:

dd if=miniroot-14L.fs of=/dev/rsd0b
dd: /dev/rsd0b: Read-only file system
1+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 1 secs (0 bytes/sec)

So I went ahead and installed 1.4.1. And still I am going crazy
wondering why the hell swap is a read-only filesystem. If you know why,
please help me (but tell it in a fashion that won't make me feel utterly
stupid ;). And if you're guessing securelevel: it's -1 on the
bootfloppy.

Here's the info on the box:

NetBSD 1.4.1 (GENERIC) #1: Mon Aug  9 02:29:47 PDT 1999
    mrg@sun4690:/work/tmp/mrg/src/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 50233344
avail mem = 46362624
using 128 buffers containing 524288 bytes of memory
bootpath: /sbus@1,f8000000/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,Sun 4/75
cpu0 at mainbus0: cache chip bug; trap page uncached: CY7C601 @ 40 MHz, TMS390C602A FPU
cpu0: 64K byte write-through, 32 bytes/line, hw flush: cache enabled
memreg0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf4000000
clock0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf2000000: mk48t02 (eeprom)
timer0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf3000000 ipl 10 delay constant 17
auxreg0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf7400003
zs0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf1000000 ipl 12 softpri 6
zstty0 at zs0 channel 0
zstty1 at zs0 channel 1
zs1 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf0000000 ipl 12 softpri 6
kbd0 at zs1 channel 0 (console)
ms0 at zs1 channel 1
audioamd0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf7201000 ipl 13 softpri 4
audio0 at audioamd0: full duplex
sbus0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf8000000: clock = 20 MHz
dma0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x400000: rev 1+
esp0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0x800000 level 3: ESP100A, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
probe(esp0:1:0): max sync rate 5.00Mb/s
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <MAXTOR, MXT-1240S, H1.1> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1183MB, 2368 cyl, 15 head, 68 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2423457 sectors
probe(esp0:3:0): max sync rate 4.80Mb/s
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <MAXTOR, LXT-213S SUN0207, 4.17> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd1: 202MB, 1310 cyl, 7 head, 45 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 415436 sectors
le0 at sbus0 slot 0 offset 0xc00000 level 4 (ipl 5): address 08:00:20:0d:da:5e
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
cgsix0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x0 level 7: SUNW,501-1481, 1152 x 900, rev 2 (console)
cgsix0: attached to /dev/fb
fdc0 at mainbus0 ioaddr 0xf7200000 ipl 11 softpri 4: chip 82072
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
root file system type: ffs

# /dev/rsd0c:
type: unknown
disk: sparcy2
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 70
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 1050
cylinders: 2306
total sectors: 2421300
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  b:   246750        0       swap                        # (Cyl.    0 - 234)
  c:  2421300        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2305)
  d:  2174550   246750     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  235 - 2305)

# /dev/rsd1c:
type: unknown
disk: sparcy
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 36
tracks/cylinder: 9
sectors/cylinder: 324
cylinders: 1254
total sectors: 406296
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0		# milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0	# milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:   103680        0     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 319)
  c:   406296        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 1253)
  d:   302616   103680     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  320 - 1253)

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