[Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD

[Alan Perry]

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 <aperry at snowmoose.com> 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
>>>>>> <jsteve at superglobalmegacorp.com> 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.
>>>>>>> ----------
>>>>>>> From:    Alan Perry
>>>>>>> Sent:    Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:57 AM
>>>>>>> To:    simh at trailing-edge.com
>>>>>>> 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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