Re: where does the first boot pause when calcluating the ssh keys?

> Joel Rees wrote:
> > 
> > I've been playing around with trying to get 3.3 installed on my performa
> > 550, and it gets to this point and stops:
> > 
> >     root on sd1a swap on sd1b
> >     WARNING: / was not properly unmounted
> >     PRAM time does not appear to have been read correctly.
> >     PRAM: 0x83da4f80, macos_boottime 0x3ed5b153
> > 
> > ...
> > So, I'm wondering, is this where the box is supposed to be calculating
> > the keys for ssh, or am I looking at what happens when you try to
> > install in a box w/out FPU, or is this likely to be the SCSI driver
> > issue, or am I looking at something else?
> 
> No, that's not where the ssh keys are generated...there is a pretty
> clear message on the screen about "Generating DSA key..."  and so
> forth...  

Okay, that's useful to know.

> ...
> 3) Memory starvation?  Could you have a very small amount of RAM (4M
> stock? 8M?) 

20M, dmesg says 15M available, but I seem to have problems running fsk
when I install netBSD on this box. But I'm pretty sure that was related
to failing to mount the partitions for /usr, /var, and /tmp.

> 
> I'm not confident any of them is your problem, however...  
> 
> 
> OOps!! uh, you have drive sd1a in use -- that indicates you have TWO
> drives on the system!  OpenBSD/mac68k has some issues with multi-drive
> machines, that very well could be your problem -- though usually, I
> saw that as a panic, but maybe the symptoms changed since I last
> looked...  THAT one, I have a little more confidence in.

Nuts. I was hoping I'd dodged the bullet there. I'll open it up and drop
the internal drive this weekend and see what happens. (Am I going to
have to play with termination on the internal cable?)

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Joel Rees <[email protected]>