Subject: Re: CATSINST from 1.4.1 fails on my box
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-install
Date: 08/24/1999 10:30:49
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999 19:27:02 +0200 (MET DST)
Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> wrote:
> > I think it's... highly likely that whoever built the installation
> > kernels, uh, forgot to run mdsetimage to actually set the contents of
> > the ramdisks.
> I had trouble with mdsetimage (on arm) on an old version of NetBSD.
> (1.3 something). I solved it by running on an i386 instead :-)
The problem you were experiencing w/ mdsetimage was due to the fact
that older versions of NetBSD/arm32 didn't do mod/ref tracking properly.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>