<html><head></head><body>Ah now that makes more sense!<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 11, 2017 5:11:34 AM GMT+08:00, Alan Perry <aperry@snowmoose.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />Problem solved. Apparently this kernel doesn't know about RA82s. I <br />changed them to RA81 and it worked fine.<br /><br />alan<br /><br />On 5/10/17 1:59 PM, Alan Perry wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> There is definitely some confusion here. But note that Bob brought up <br /> disklabel, not me. I was pointing out that I could not follow the <br /> disklabel step in his instructions because there is no disklabel <br /> command in the root path on my 4.3 BSD (it says 4.3BSD in the motd and <br /> the login prompt).<br /><br /> I already indicated that "newfs /dev/ra1c ra82" is responding:<br /> Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82<br /> /dev/rra1c: cannot create<br /><br /> I get the same partition message at boot time:<br /> ra1 at uda0 slave 1<br /> Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82<br /> ra2 at uda0 slave 2<br /> Don't have a parition table for a DU RA 82<br /><br /> I initially thought that this was a partition table in a disklabel, <br /> but it been explained to me that the layout is compiled into the <br /> kernel and there should be a matching entry in /etc/disktab. There <br /> wasn't one, so I created a disktab entry for ra82.<br /><br /> alan<br /><br /> On 5/10/17 1:38 PM, Anders Magnusson wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> You have mixed up something here.<br /><br /> There are no disklabels whatsoever in 4.3BSD, and nothing in newfs <br /> that cares about it.<br /> If your newfs complains about disklabels, you are using newfs from <br /> something else, not 4.3BSD.<br /><br /> -- R<br /><br /> Den 2017-05-10 kl. 21:15, skrev Alan Perry:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> Your instructions say to use disklabel. However, there is no <br /> disklabel in the default root execution path on the 4.3 BSD image <br /> that I am running.<br /><br /> On 5/10/17 11:03 AM, Bob Eager wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;"> If you look through those instructions I posted a link to, you'll see<br /> how to do a disklabel.<br /><br /> On Wed, 10 May 2017 07:41:01 -0700<br /> Alan Perry <aperry@snowmoose.com> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #e9b96e; padding-left: 1ex;"> I have tried to run newfs on partition c and it fails, complaining<br /> about the lack of a partition table.<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 1ex;"> On May 10, 2017, at 07:29, Jason Stevens<br /> <jsteve@superglobalmegacorp.com> wrote:<br /><br /> If Im remembering right, straight 4.3 pre-dates the labels, it's a<br /> hard coded partition types in the drivers at this point.<br /><br /> If you don't care, just use the 0c devices aka 'whole disk' ... or<br /> I recall that working well enough.<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ccc; padding-left: 1ex;"> ----------<br /> From: Alan Perry<br /> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2017 12:57 AM<br /> To: simh@trailing-edge.com<br /> Subject: [Simh] Adding storage to vax running 4.3BSD<br /><br /> What are the steps for adding storage to a SIMH vax (vax750, to be<br /> specific) running 4.3BSD? I created disk image files on the host<br /> OS of the proper size (for RA82s) and attached them through<br /> the .ini file. However, they don't have partition tables and this<br /> version of BSD doesn't seem to have a tool for creating them. 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