Re: bootloader issue

Since it did load sysinst on my second try, just assume this was user error. 
=)  I'll let you know if I see it again.

David Ross
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


> David Ross wrote:
>
>> 4.0_STABLE kernel loads but after sysinst is read in from md2a, I get:
>> no file system for md2 (dev 0x120)
>> Cannot mount root, error = 79
>>
>> Then back to the root device prompt.  Maybe I did something wrong, but I
>> can't think of what that would be.  If you can't immediately think of a
>> potential cause, I'll try again after I'm done with 5.
>
> Hmm, I've checked sysinst.fs.gz in the snapshot and
> I can moufnt it properly via vnd(4) on i386, so
> sysinst.fs itself should be okay.
>
> The patched 4.0_STABLE kernel might have another problem on
> reading md_root, but could you confirm it by reading
> a working 5.0_BETA sysinst.fs floppy on 4.0_BETA kernel?
>
> It should work though it will fail by bad system call errors
> after mountroot, as you reported in the past:
> http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/port-atari/2009/01/01/msg000189.html
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>