[282] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: -current installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Fri Aug 18 03:10:19 1995
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 1995 03:09:55 -0400
To: Steve Franks <sdfranks@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[281] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> >> One thing to try is to boot with a floppy which has a working kernel,
> >> and then attempt to bring a different kernel over (this is kind of
> >
> >The problem here is that apparently the distributed kernel was built
> >on a bad day, before a critical fix for this problem. We need to
> >build a new one and update the distrution and then it'll work right.
>
> Ok. If possible, could I be notified when this happens? I don't have a
> working box now, and I hate having to use windoze :(
I'm really sorry. You should yell at us a lot louder. It's really
unacceptable for us to leave things in the state that they were.
In any event, I've rebuilt the INSTALL-AHA kernel and replaced the
kernel in {/afs/sipb/project,/mit}/netbsd/i386.current/floppies/nfsaha.fs
with it (nfsaha.fs.old contains the previous version), so please give it
a shot. If you were using nfsbt.fs or somesuch, please let us know.
If you were having the problem AFTER you completed installation (your
mail wasn't entirely clear if it was booting off the install kernel
from the floppy, or...), I've installed a new ATHENA-AHA kernel in
rtfm:/u2/lockers/netbsd/i386.current/install/usr/distrib/athena-aha,
which you can put into place manually (boot single user and NFS mount
and get it) or you can just reinstall from scratch.
Thanks for reporting this, and sorry for taking so long!
--jhawk
