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Possibly silly NetBSD on A3000 question....
« on: June 07, 2004, 04:48:30 AM »
I have a feeling I'm missing something obvious, but I need to ask for help as I'm at wits end.  I have an A3000D standard config (except the ram is 16 and 2MB) and I'm trying to load NetBSD 1.6 on it.  I have created the swap and root drives as indicated on the installation instructions, and I've copied the source files to an AmigaDOS partition where I'm trying to load miniroot from.  When I run the xstreamtodev to load the miniroot into swap the percent counter only gets to 4% and the thing drops me back at the Workbench Shell prompt as though everything is succesful.  Just out of curiousity I rebooted to the swap partition and let the miniroot load, after a brief amount of activity at the loader screen, the screen blanks and the system just sits there with a dark screen.  I can only assume that it's because of an incomplete miniroot load.  What am I missing?  Help!   :-?  The swap partition is at the beginning of the disk (at least according to HDToolbox) and it's 100MB so I can't believe it's too small.  Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.  I'm getting rather frustrated.
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Re: Possibly silly NetBSD on A3000 question....
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2004, 05:53:13 AM »
Software Hut has them for $4 US per chip.  I bought them from there.  They were helpful in replacing one that was bad also.  
http://www.softhut.com
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Re: Possibly silly NetBSD on A3000 question....
« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2004, 03:56:34 PM »
OK.  I was wondering if that was what the percentage was.  There are no messages, it just goes from the initial grey screen with black text, to blank.   It's almost like it's changing graphics modes or something.  I'll try to post more details this evening like the values displayed on the screen just prior.

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Re: Possibly silly NetBSD on A3000 question....
« Reply #3 on: June 08, 2004, 04:53:03 AM »
OK>  More detail...

At the Boot: prompt I take the default of netbsd -ASn2
Loading netbsd: =0x2a8b88
1904563+80924+379084 [283904+131108]=0x2a8b88

*** Loading from 07D3E384 to Fastmem 0700000 ***

At this point the screen clears and goes black.  I've left it like this for at least 10 minutes and nothing ever happens.
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Re: Possibly silly NetBSD on A3000 question....
« Reply #4 on: June 11, 2004, 06:50:20 AM »
Anyone????
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Re: Possibly silly NetBSD on A3000 question....
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2004, 06:41:39 PM »
No disk activity and no graphics card.  I'll post to the mailing list.  Thanks for trying.
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