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- > Trevor Elbourne:
- > >
- > > I tried booting the 516 kernel (first time I have attempted boot
- > > NetBSD) and nothing happened. When I ran loadbsd vmunix.516 in the
- > ...
- > > My setup:
- > >
- > > A2000 + 1MEG chip
- > > GVP GFORCE '030 + 5MEGS FAST
- > > Quantum LP120S (116MEG) HD at SCSI ID0
- >
- > Almost identical to my setup, I have HD at SCSI ID#4 though
- > (330 MB Micropolis 1684) and CD-ROM at ID#5.
- >
- >
- > > I have setup the disk correctly (ROOT, SWAP, USR and HOME), filetodev
- > > the rootfs and changed GVPIIscsi to gvpscsi^@^@ in the kernel.
- >
- > This is the problem: you don't need to patch that string anymore.
- > Try to boot with the original #516 kernel and tell if you get
- > to the prompt! My machine finds now the root (thanks to mtk's
- > frantic debugging yesterday :) and starts booting but hangs
- > after it says 'bpf: lo0 attached'.
- >
- >
- > --
- > / / most stupid
- > ayrjola@hut.fi / / dinosaurs
- > ___________________/ / ought to starve
- > --------------------'
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- I tried using 516 both with and without changing that GVPIIscsi
- string, neither worked and both yielded the same result :(
-
- Trevor.
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- | Trevor Elbourne | Computer and Systems Technology (CaST) |
- | trevore@vast.unsw.edu.au | Dept of Computer Science & Engineering |
- | trevore@cse.unsw.edu.au | University of New South Wales |
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