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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!pravda.aa.msen.com!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!scsing.switch.ch!svuse.ubs.com!svnews.ubinet.ubs.com!svusenet.ubs.ch!zhmte From: zhmte@zh014.ubs.ubs.ch (Andreas Meister) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: PMax port. Disk config problem Date: 29 Jan 1996 07:17:06 GMT Organization: Union Bank of Switzerland Lines: 64 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ehs9i-iqe@svstch.ubs.ch> References: <4eav32$4gu@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: svcmd01.flur.zuerich.ubs.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6] Erwin van Eijk (eijk@pegasus.esprit.ec.org) wrote: : Hardware: DEC MIPS 5000/33 : Disc: RZ25, standard DEC SCSI : OS: Ultrix 4.3 : Wanted OS: PMax port of NetBSD 1.1 : : We've been busy for a whole day now, and we can't get it to boot. We followed : the instructions in the pmax installation HTML manual, we did: : : 1: Create a protofile for the disk on an Ultrix machine. : We composed this protofile: : : type: SCSI : disk: rz25 : label: NetBSDboot : flags: : bytes/sector: 512 : sectors/track: 62 : tracks/cylinder: 9 : sectors/cylinder: 558 : cylinders: 1476 : rpm: 3600 : interleave: 1 : trackskew: 0 : cylinderskew: 0 : headswitch: 0 # milliseconds : track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds : drivedata: 0 : : 4 partitions: : # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] : a: 49104 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 87) : b: 164052 49104 swap # (Cyl. 88 - 381) : c: 823608 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - 1475) : d: 610452 213156 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 382 - 1475) : : (a 20M boot partition, 80M swap and 300M /usr) : : disklabel -B -W /dev/rrz2 ourlabel : : Then we dd'd the miniboot to /dev/rrz2c, and it complained about not being : able to find netbsd when we tried to boot it. It gave an error 21, whatever : that may be. : : After numerous attempts with all dirty tricks in the help/manual/stuff we : didn't come any closer to our goal: booting the %^&* thing. : : We can't mount anything useful from the disk when hooking it to a i386NetBSD : machine too. So. Who can help, we're desperate. Our boss is complaining about : getting work done..... argh, I lost my whole weekend on this too... On a DEC 3100 altough, but exactly the same problem/symptoms... Lets keep us updated if we know some more... Andreas -- ___________________________________________________________________________ Andreas Meister, Union Bank of Switzerland, Lausanne, Switzerland e-mail: Andreas.Meister@ubs.ch, zhmte@svewbl01.bussigny.lausanne.ubs.ch phone: +41 21 702 88 23________here's one straight from the factory________