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From: mack23@bigstar.eecs.nwu.edu (Chris Walsh)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: miniroot boot hangs on MicroVAX II
Date: 31 Oct 1995 02:42:51 GMT
Organization: EE/CS Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL.
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Message-ID: <4742fb$maa@news.eecs.nwu.edu>
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After successfully partitioning the rd54 in my handy MicroVAX II with
12 MB or core and copying the miniroot file from TK50 to swap, I'm
running into a problem.
After loading the gennetbsd kernel, I get the expected series of
BSDish messages:
ra0 at uda0 slave 0: rd54, size = 311200 sectors
tmscp0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 176, ipl 17
tms0 at tmscp0 slave 0
then it hangs. The instructions in the INSTALL doc say
"When kernel is loaded, you will after a while get a
question about Root device?. Respond to this with
xx?*, where xx is the device name,..."
but I think 15 mins is longer than "a while", even on this relic. Any ideas
on how to debug this process? The machine boots Ultrix 1.2 just fine :^).
--
Chris Walsh finger mack23@eecs.nwu.edu
EECS Dept., Northwestern Univ. for PGP 2.6.2 public key
Evanston, IL
http://web.eecs.nwu.edu/~mack23/