Problem solved. Apparently this kernel doesn't know about RA82s. I
changed them to RA81 and it worked fine.
alan
On 5/10/17 1:59 PM, Alan Perry wrote:
There is definitely some confusion here. But note that Bob brought up
disklabel, not me. I was pointing out that I could not follow the
disklabel step in his instructions because there is no disklabel
command in the root path on my 4.3 BSD (it says 4.3BSD in the motd and
the login prompt).
I already indicated that "newfs /dev/ra1c ra82" is responding:
Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
/dev/rra1c: cannot create
I get the same partition message at boot time:
ra1 at uda0 slave 1
Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
ra2 at uda0 slave 2
Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82
I initially thought that this was a partition table in a disklabel,
but it been explained to me that the layout is compiled into the
kernel and there should be a matching entry in /etc/disktab. There
wasn't one, so I created a disktab entry for ra82.
alan
On 5/10/17 1:38 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote:
You have mixed up something here.
There are no disklabels whatsoever in 4.3BSD, and nothing in newfs
that cares about it.
If your newfs complains about disklabels, you are using newfs from
something else, not 4.3BSD.
-- R
Den 2017-05-10 kl. 21:15, skrev Alan Perry:
Your instructions say to use disklabel. However, there is no
disklabel in the default root execution path on the 4.3 BSD image
that I am running.
On 5/10/17 11:03 AM, Bob Eager wrote:
If you look through those instructions I posted a link to, you'll see
how to do a disklabel.
On Wed, 10 May 2017 07:41:01 -0700
Alan Perry <[email protected]> wrote:
I have tried to run newfs on partition c and it fails, complaining
about the lack of a partition table.
On May 10, 2017, at 07:29, Jason Stevens
<[email protected]> wrote:
If Im remembering right, straight 4.3 pre-dates the labels, it's a
hard coded partition types in the drivers at this point.
If you don't care, just use the 0c devices aka 'whole disk' ... or
I recall that working well enough.
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From: Alan Perry
Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:57 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD
What are the steps for adding storage to a SIMH vax (vax750, to be
specific) running 4.3BSD? I created disk image files on the host
OS of the proper size (for RA82s) and attached them through
the .ini file. However, they don't have partition tables and this
version of BSD doesn't seem to have a tool for creating them. So,
how do I put partition tables on the ra82 disk images?
Thanks,
alan
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