Re: [GXemul-users] problem running NetBSD/pmax on gxemul 0.6.4.3

[Anders G. <ga...@gm...>]

Hi Crni,

On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 13:52 +0200, Crni Gorac wrote:
> Installed gxemul from source, and then NetBSD/pmax following
> instructions found here:
> http://gavare.se/gxemul/gxemul-stable/doc/guestoses.html#netbsdpmaxinstall.
>  All went smoothly, however now when I try to run NetBSD (through
> "gxemul -e 3max -d nbsd_pmax.img" command), errors are reported:
> ----------
> NetBSD/pmax 4.0 FFS Primary Bootstrap
> open 5/rz0//boot.pmax: 2
> Can't load '5/rz0//boot.pmax'
> open 5/rz0//boot: 2
> Can't load '5/rz0//boot'
> open 5/rz0//boot.pma: 2
> Can't load '5/rz0//boot.pma

This is what it looks like for me if I remove the /boot.pmax file from
the disk image.

It is possible that you rebooted the emulated machine too quickly after
installation, so that NetBSD did not have time to synch all data to
disk. (I've seen this several times with OpenBSD, I am not sure if I've
seen it with NetBSD.)

Perhaps you could try installing again, and instead of just exiting the
emulator forcefully, make sure you choose "reboot" in the NetBSD
installer menu. Perhaps even exit to the shell prompt and run "sync"
before "reboot".

A possible other explanation could be if your disk image was larger than
4 GB, and you triggered a yet unknown 32-bit vs 64-bit bug.


Anders