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- From: llucius@millcomm.com (Yambo)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: General NetBSD questions after install
- Date: 3 Mar 1996 06:22:08 GMT
- Organization: the 9672-R83
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- Ronnie D. Garrett (rgarrett@infi.net) wrote:
- :
- : First when I try to reboot from within netbsd my drive hangs -
- : the light stays lit up, I have to shut off the power to the computer
- : then boot with not startup sequence and type loadbsd -a netbsd from
- : an amiga shell.
- :
- : Is this correct ? I dont think so.
- :
- Well, I'm not sure if it's correct, but mine (A3000) does it too. I
- suspect it has to do with the kernel using synchronous drive access. I
- haven't tested it yet, but this can be disabled with "-I" option of loadbsd.
-
- It sure would be nice if the kernel would do some sort of SCSI bus reset
- when halted.
-
- : Second, cant you hold both mouse buttons down and boot from the boot
- : menu that the amiga gives you (like my old Amix did ?)
- :
- If you want to do this, you will have to get "bootblock.tar.gz". It can
- be found the the NetBSD-Amiga hierarchy (can't remember where). This
- will place a bootblocks on your root partition. However, it does not
- work with all controllers so you'll just have to try it. (It does work
- with an A3000, quite well!)
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