NetBSD Problem Report #10426

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Subject: installing with dd gets me an 
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>Number:         10426
>Category:       port-sun3
>Synopsis:       installing with dd gets me an
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-sun3-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Jun 23 09:06:00 +0000 2000
>Closed-Date:    Mon Sep 24 06:11:57 +0000 2001
>Last-Modified:  Mon Sep 24 06:11:57 +0000 2001
>Originator:     Matthias Brenner
>Release:        1.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
SUN 3/80
>Description:
When i try to install NetBSD 1.4.x i get lots of errors. First:
NetBSD 1.4.2 does not boot. So i tried NetBSD 1.4. That's ok (there
is only a message: "device md0 (0xd00) not configured", but i use
md0a, md0b and the system boots). When i try to copy a miniroot to
my system i get the following (see how to repeat).
Is there someone who can tell me what i am doing wrong? Is there
an online man page for edlabel? (i do not know the allowed types)

Thank for all help

Matthias
>How-To-Repeat:
1) boot the system from tape
2) "mt -f /dev/nrst0 rewind" gives
st0(esp0:4:0): Sense Key 0x05, data = 00 00 00 00 00 00
st0(esp0:4:0): illegal request, data = 00 00 00 00 00 00
st0: cannot set selected mode
3) "mt -f /dev/nrst0 fsf 2" gives
ssh: st0(esp0:4:0): Sense Key 0x05, data = 00 00 00 00 00 00
st0(esp0:4:0): illegal request, data = 00 00 00 00 00 00
st0: cannot set selected mode
4) "dd bs=32k if=/dev/nrst0 of=/dev/rsd0b" gives
st0(esp0:4:0): Sense Key 0x00, info = 48 (decimal), data = 00 00 00 00 00 00
dd: /dev/rsd0b: Read-only file system
0+1 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes transferred in 3 secs (0 bytes/sec)

>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Erik Fair <fair@clock.org>
To: info@mbe.de
Cc: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-sun3/10426: installing with dd gets me an
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 15:00:29 -0700

 The command for labelling and partitioning a disk for NetBSD/sun3 is 
 called "disklabel"

 One thing to be careful about is that the partitions must be sized in 
 cylinders (that is, the number of blocks in each partition must be a 
 multiple of the number of blocks in a cylinder). If you don't do 
 that, the sun3 boot PROM will declare the disk label invalid and will 
 not boot from it.

 Does this answer the question you filed the PR for?

 	Erik <fair@clock.org>

From: WWW-Konfig <www2@Desktop2.Brenner.mbe.de>
To: Erik Fair <fair@clock.org>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: port-sun3/10426: installing with dd gets me an
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 01:50:03 -0700

 Hello,

 thank you for your message. I used the form x/y/z to assign partition
 boundaries and set y and z as zero. So i partitioned my disk using only
 cylinders. I think so everything must be all right. But the installation 
 program says, that this is a read only slice. I don't know why. I also
 don't know what partition names are allowed (BSD4.2, swap and so on).


 Bye

 Matthias
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: chs 
State-Changed-When: Sun Sep 23 23:10:49 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
submitter reports that eventually he figured it out 
and has successfully installed a system. 
>Unformatted:

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