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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.uoknor.edu!news.nodak.edu!netnews1.nwnet.net!news.u.washington.edu!uw-beaver!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!news.cyberstore.ca!van-bc!news.mindlink.net!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!news.nic.surfnet.nl!news.nic.utwente.nl!news.cs.utwente.nl!eijk From: eijk@pegasus.esprit.ec.org (Erwin van Eijk) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: PMax port. Disk config problem Date: 26 Jan 1996 16:21:54 GMT Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science Lines: 53 Sender: sijben@eddy.pegasus.esprit.ec.org (Paul Sijben) Distribution: world Message-ID: <4eav32$4gu@utrhcs.cs.utwente.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: eddy.pegasus.esprit.ec.org X-newsreader: xrn 8.00 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..... Greetings, Erwin J. van Eijk, eijk@pegasus.esprit.ec.org