Re: boot problems (still)
> Automatic boot in progress...
> Sun Sep 24 08:25:58 CDT 2000
> ext2fs_check_if_mount: Unknown code P 2 while determining whether \
> /dev/hd1s1 is mounted.
> /sbin/fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short \
> read while trying to open /dev/hd1s1
> Could this be a zero-length partition?
> Automatic boot failed...help!
> sh-2.04#
Well, you got a shell; are the partitions mounted? Have you run
native-install?
> Also, if I try "mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy", I get a segfault. (/dev/fd0
> exists.)
Is this from gnumach or oskit-mach? If it is from gnumach, do you have
Marcus's floppy patch (from four or five days ago) applied (it is in
CVS)?
> Networking commands (ping for instance) give "translator failed" (close, I'm
> doing this from notes and memory.
I assume that you settrans'ed it? Try settrans'ing it with the the active
and passive options so that any errors go to the console immediately.
# settrans -apfg ...
Regards,
-Neal
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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu
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