Re: IBM RS/6000 - more trouble or just my terminal?

I found a web site that'll show you how to set the terminal type. 

http://abcsinc.com/techsupport/Terminals/IBM%203151.htm


Keith Bennett wrote:

>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 20:27:43 +0100, Jochen Kunz
><[email protected]> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:31:55 -0600
>>Keith Bennett <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>>It said "reset: not found" ... I don't think reset is included on the
>>>installation diskette... ;)
>>>      
>>>
>>You use reset(1) on the host shell where your terminal emulator runs. If
>>you have a hardware terminal use its "screen reset" or the like fuction.
>>
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>>>It seems it didn't recognize cu or minicom as a terminal, but xterm
>>>worked. 
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>>>
>>cu(1) and minicom(1) are no terminal types. They are terminal programms
>>running on an other machine emulating a terminal.
>>
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>>>That'll be something to look into, I think. My terminal is an IBM
>>>InfoWindow II 3153 if anyone is interested.
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>>>
>>Aha. A hardware terminal. Either your terminal isn't set up to use the
>>proper terminal emulaton ("vt100", "vt220" or "ANSI" should do) or its
>>emulaton is buggy. Unfortunately the later is quite common.
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>None of those worked. The only one that both NetBSD would recognize
>and would work on my terminal is "vt52".
>
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>>>As for the installation... like I said earlier, I'm new to *BSD (new
>>>to any *nix for that matter). I loaded up the sysinst program, and
>>>tried installing... selected Full installation, when it asked if I
>>>wanted to edit the MBR or use entire disk, I selected the entire disk,
>>>it then asked "Yes or no?" with no information regarding it... wtf,
>>>eh?
>>>      
>>>
>>PReP machines need a MBR partition table. There are two partitions in
>>that table: One containing the OS kernel and one conaining the NetBSD
>>file systems. The later partition is split up into slices (BSD term for
>>partition) by a disklabel(5). Slice A is allways boot, B swap, C entire
>>disk / entire BSD part of the disk, D entire disk, E etc. are free for
>>any use.
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>>>Any help?
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>>>
>>I posted detaild instalation instructions and an installation log to the
>>list some days ago. Search the archive for:
>>Subject: Re: netbsd 2.0 on rs6000 43p, what I've been able to do so far,
>>and where i got stuck
>>Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 22:08:04 +0100
>>also note my mail with
>>Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:42:17 +0100
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>
>I followed those instructions. I even verified that I'm using the
>patched kernel from
>ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/prep/snapshot/release-2-0_20050119/installation/floppy/,
>by adding a "patched" folder to the /prep/installation/ folder of the
>ISO, adding the images there, and burning a new CD. Unfrotunately,
>when I tried installing from that CD, I noticed that a couple of the
>packages were not able to be read, so what I ended up doing is setting
>up the drive with my second CD, rebooting, then installing with my
>first CD.
>
>I still have the problem of the kernel panicking with "lockmgr: no context".
>
>Here's a log of what I'm doing (I'm writing this out manually, so ugh!):
>[bootup using sysinst_com0.fs floppy]
>Terminal type? [vt100] vt52
>(I)nstall, (S)hell, or (H)alt ? s
># mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt
>cd0: no disk label
># cd /mnt/prep/installation/patched
># ls
>generic.fs    generic_com0.fs    sysinst.fs    sysinst_com0.fs
># dd if=sysinst_com0.fs of=/dev/sd0
>uid 0, pid 19, command dd, on /: file system full
>
>/: write failed, file system is full
>dd: /dev/sd0: No space left on device
>857+0 records in
>856+0 records out
>438272 bytes transferred in 0.739 secs (593060 bytes/sec)
># dd if=sysinst_com0.fs of=/dev/sd0c
>2858+1 records in
>2858+1 records out
>1463708 bytes transferred in 5.975 secs (244972 bytes/sec)
># cd /
># fdisk /dev/sd0
>fdisk: DIOCGDEFLABEL: Inappropriate ioctl for device
>fdisk: DIOCGDINFO: Inappropriate ioctl for device
># fdisk /dev/sd0c
>sd0: no disk label
>Disk: /dev/sd0c
>NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
>cylinders: 11474, heads: 5, sectors/track: 309 (1545 sectors/cylinder)
>total sectors: 17774160
>
>BIOS disk geometry:
>cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
>total sectors: 17774160
>
>Partition table:
>0: Linux/MINIX (sharing disk with DRDOS) or Personal RISC boot (sysid 65)
>    start 0, size 2879 (1 MB, Cyls 0-0/45/45), Active
>1: <UNUSED>
>2: <UNUSED>
>3: <UNUSED>
># fdisk -u -1 /dev/sd0c
>sd0: no disk label
>Disk: /dev/sd0c
>NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
>cylinders: 11474, heads: 5, sectors/track: 309 (1545 sectors/cylinder)
>total sectors: 17774160
>
>BIOS disk geometry:
>cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
>total sectors: 17774160
>
>Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks? [n]
>
>Partition 1:
><UNUSED>
>The data for partition 1 is:
><UNUSED>
>sysid: [0..255 default: 169]
>start: [0..1106cyl default: 2879, 0cyk, 1MB] 1cyl
>size: [0..1105cyl default: 17758095, 1105cyl, 8671MB]
>
>We haven't written the MBR back to disk yet. This is your last chance.
>Partition table:
>0: Linux/MINIX (sharing disk with DRDOS) or Personal RISC boot (sysid 65)
>    start 0, size 2879 (1 MB, Cyls 0-0/45/45), Active
>1: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>    start 16065, size 17758095 (8671 MB, Cyls 1-1106/99/34)
>2: <UNUSED>
>3: <UNUSED>
>Should we write new partition table? [n] y
># disklabel -i -I /dev/sd0c
>partition> P
>8 partitions:
>#        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> a:    787950     16065     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.     10*-    520*)
> b:    525300    804015       swap                     # (Cyl.    520*-    860*)
> c:  17774160         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -  11504*)
> d:   2098110   1329315     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.    860*-   2218*)
> d:   2098110   3427425     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.   2218*-   3576*)
> d:  12245670   5525535     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.   3576*-  11502*)
>partition> R
>Rounding [sectors]: c
>partition> W
>Label disk [n]? y
>NetBSD slice at 16065, partition C at 0
>Write outside MBR partition? [n]: y
>Label written
>partition> Q
># reboot
>...
>rebooting, inserting other disc, will verify sd0 was written correctly
>before install
>...
>Terminal type? [vt100] vt52
>(I)nstall, (S)hell, or (H)alt? s
># fdisk /dev/sd0
>sd0: no disk label
>Disk: /dev/sd0c
>NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
>cylinders: 11474, heads: 5, sectors/track: 309 (1545 sectors/cylinder)
>total sectors: 17774160
>
>BIOS disk geometry:
>cylinders: 1023, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)
>total sectors: 17774160
>
>Partition table:
>0: Linux/MINIX (sharing disk with DRDOS) or Personal RISC boot (sysid 65)
>    start 0, size 2879 (1 MB, Cyls 0-0/45/45), Active
>1: NetBSD (sysid 169)
>    start 16065, size 17758095 (8671 MB, Cyls 1-1106/99/34)
>2: <UNUSED>
>3: <UNUSED>
># disklabel /dev/sd0
>... (a lot of text goes beyond upper part of terminal, is there a way
>to display it by page?)
>total sectors: 17774160
>rpm: 3600
>interleave: 1
>trackskew: 0
>cylinderskew: 0
>headswitch: 0             #microseconds
>track-to-track seek: 0  #microseconds
>drivedata: 0
>
>8 partitions:
> a:    787950     16065     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.     10*-    520*)
> b:    525300    804015       swap                     # (Cyl.    520*-    860*)
> c:  17774160         0     unused      0     0        # (Cyl.      0 -  11504*)
> d:   2098110   1329315     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.    860*-   2218*)
> d:   2098110   3427425     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.   2218*-   3576*)
> d:  12245670   5525535     4.2BSD   1024  8192 43776  # (Cyl.   3576*-  11502*)
># /sysinst
>(a: Install NetBSD to hard disk)
>(b: Yes)
>(a: sd0)
>(a: Full installation)
>(a: Edit the MBR partition table)
>(a: Megabytes)
>(x: Partition table OK)
>(a: Set sizes of NetBSD partitions)
>
>Here's the default NetBSD partition sizes:
>     MB         Cylinders   Sectors   Filesystem
>    319  (8542)       424    655080 + /
>    128               170    262650   swap
>      0                 0         0   tmp (mfs)
>      0                 0         0   /usr
>      0                 0         0   /var
>      0                 0         0   /home
>
>     MB         Cylinders   Sectors   Filesystem
>    319               424    655080 + /
>    128               170    262650   swap
>     64                85    131325   tmp (mfs)
>   1024              1358   2098110   /usr
>   1024              1358   2098110   /var
>   5979              7926  12245670   /home
>
>(Accept partition sizes. Free space 1 MB, 2 free partitions.)
>That brings me to this screen:
>   Start  MB   End  MB  Size  MB FS type    NewFS Mount Mount point
>   --------- --------- --------- ---------- ----- ----- -----------
>a:         7       391       384 FFSv1      Yes   Yes   /
>b:       392       648       256 swap
>c:         0      8677      8678 Whole disk
>d:       649      1672      1024 FFSv1      Yes   Yes   /usr
>d:      1673      2697      1024 FFSv1      Yes   Yes   /var
>d:      2698      8676      5979 FFSv1      Yes   Yes   /home
>d:         0         0         0 unused
>
>(Partition sizes ok)
>[mydisk]: kanenetbsd
>Shall we continue?
>(Yes)
>Write outside MBR partition? [n]: y
>(hit enter to continue)
>(newfs'ing all the partitions)
>(a: Progress bar (recommended))
>(selected CDROM/DVD) -- I didnt pay attention to what letter option it
>was, bleh... oh well
>(hit enter to continue)
>(Installing)
>All selected distribution sets unpacked successfully. (hit enter to continue)
>(setup timezone)
>(no not change cipher)
>
>Here's anothere place where my terminal is rather annoying... it
>displays a prompt with "Yes" and "No", yet there's no other text to
>say what it's for. I've tried this enough times to know that it's
>asking me if I want to change my root password, which of course, I
>select "Yes".
>(Enter password)
>(Re-enter password)
>(Use csh as shell)
>Installation is complete. (hit enter to continue)
>(d: Reboot the computer)
>...
>When firmware loads up (terminal displays RS/6000 with test sequence),
>I eject the boot floppy.
>
>...
>Now comes up the NetBSD kernel! Oh yay! Except, it's panicked! Oh no!
>Same screen as before.
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>>>NetBSD/prep BOOT, Revision 1.5
>>>(builds@build, Mon Dec  6 00:12:27 UTC 2004)
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>
>Boot: Loading in()
>3537044+185960=0x38d160
>start=0x100000
>
>panic: lockmgr: no context
>
>The operating system has halted.
>Please press any key to reboot.
>
>
>At this point, I turn off the computer and wait for more help.  ;)
>I'm sure you'll probably not like me setting up the partitions the way
>I did; is that what's causing this?
>
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