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I just attempted to install NetBSD/Amiga from the Amiga Format CD (AFCD19) It is version 1.2.1

I have partitioned my drive, and copied the miniroot filesystem to the swap partition, and I can susessfully start NetBSD by using the loadbsd bootstrap utility.  When it asked for the root device I typed in sd0* which corresponds to my internal IDE hard drive, and then the install program started.  The program then sayd 'scanning for root device...' and thats about as far as it gets.  The hard drive accesses a bit but nothing comes up on the screen.

The machine does not crash, because you can still break out of the program, but the install script freezes.

Can anyone help with this problem?

My system is an Amiga A1200 with a GVP 68030 and 68882 (both at 50Mhz) 8Mb of GVP Fast RAM, a Quantum Fireball 2.1Gb HDD and an 8 speed ATAPI CD-ROM drive.  The OS is Workbench 3.0.

One strange thing that happens is that the system picks up the SCSI bus on the GVP board (A1230 Turbo+ Series 2) and interrogates it for devices, despite the fact that no SCSI controller exists.  I wonder if this has something to do with it.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Reguards,

Daniel Franklin.

Hi.

Perhaps you could double-check the dostypes on your NetBSD partitions?
They should have been set in HDToolBox under 'Custom Filesystem' when
you partitioned the drive. It sounds like the ID for the root partition
could be wrong.

ISTR something about having to have one of the partitions in the first
512 MB of the disk with certain versions of NetBSD and/or loadbsd -
although this is from memory (ie probably inaccurate) and I only scanned
that document. Worth looking up though.

Hope this helps

Jamie Keir

I don't know what others have found, but many of the files for NetBSD 1.2
on that CD were corrupt, gnutar refused to extract the files beyond a
certain point. It turned out that even the kernel was corrupt, so I don't
use it for obvious reasons.

Has anyone else experienced this? This could explain why Daniel here is
experiencing this problem.

Quote:> I just attempted to install NetBSD/Amiga from the Amiga Format CD

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> I have partitioned my drive, and copied the miniroot filesystem to the

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> The machine does not crash, because you can still break out of the

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> Can anyone help with this problem?

> My system is an Amiga A1200 with a GVP 68030 and 68882 (both at 50Mhz)

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> One strange thing that happens is that the system picks up the SCSI bus

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> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

> Reguards,

> Daniel Franklin.

Quote:>I don't know what others have found, but many of the files for NetBSD 1.2
>on that CD were corrupt, gnutar refused to extract the files beyond a
>certain point. It turned out that even the kernel was corrupt, so I don't
>use it for obvious reasons.
>Has anyone else experienced this? This could explain why Daniel here is
>experiencing this problem.

Yes, the included kernel file was not the same size as the official
GENERIC one. It worked OK on my machine but your mileage may vary. I ftp'd
an official one just in case. I can also see things on my Blizzard SCSI
expansion that I cannot use, I think it may be comming in 1.3 (wadaya mean,
your _still_ beta testing). It may be an indication that support is work in
progress (fingers crossed).

TTFN

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