On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 22:58, Henry Bent <henry.r.bent%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> I was waiting to try the new installer image until I completed the 8.0 standard install over a serial console. I chose a full install and it went smoothly, albeit slowly (as one might expect), and when I was dropped back to the monitor I found myself entirely unable to boot. I assumed that sd(0,0,0)netbsd was what I wanted (for my disk at SCSI target 0) but that did not work. Various other permutations of partition choices yielded no result. What am I missing here?
<wracks memory>
Just to confirm is the scsi disk target 0? (probe-scsi) - netbsd will
name the first disk as sd0 even its its on a non zero scsi target.
Yes:
ok probe-scsi
Target 0
Unit 0 Disk UNISYS U1545 ST12550N 280900460958Copyright (c) 1994 Seagate All rights reserved 0000
Target 6
Unit 0 Removable Read Only device DEC RRD42 (C) DEC 1.4a
I made sure to put the root partition in the first 1GB of the disk (it's 128MB) so there shouldn't be any problems there.
As a quick workaround you should be able to boot the cdrom kernel with
-a and then give sd0a as the root filesystem.
This still isn't working. I get the prompt for what filesystem to boot from, but various combinations of sd(0,0,n)netbsd don't work. When I boot the installer and drop to a shell, I can mount /dev/sd0a and see that there is a valid kernel named netbsd. I'm at a loss as to what is going on here.
I may give up on this system; the onboard ethernet appears to be dead and I don't have an SBUS ethernet card that this machine will recognize. I am still willing to do testing for bug fixing though.
-Henry