Bring up Reno

[James Aldridge]

In article <1926 at hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch> mwm at hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch (Mike McGann) writes:
>I have brought 4.3 Reno up on a uVax with an
>RD53 and a cdc xmd(ra81 emulation) There are some
>small problems:

I have brought 4.3 Reno up on a uVAX and attemped it on a VAX11/750

>uda.c - now compares not only drive code but also 
>        geometry against its tables and they are wrong for a rd53.

Our uVAX II is entirely DEC kit so I can't comment on this one.

>passwd.c - thinks the username is argv[0] instead of 1, so it works if you rename it to 
>           the user name.

The problem only exists if you don't run the Kerberos stuff.  It can be made
to work as normal (passwd username) if you add the following lines as a #else
clause to the #ifdef KERBEROS in main():

	#else
		argc--; argv++;

which corresponds to the corrresponding code in the kerberos case (decoding
the -l flag using getopt).

>But I am having a bigger problem. It seems to trash a filesystem in some circumstances
>to the extent that fsck can't fix it.

I believe there was a bug in very early releases of Reno's fsck program - I
seem to recall a posting some time back but can't remember when or exactly
what he problem was.

The Major problem I have had installing 4.3BSD-Reno on our 11/750 is that it
doesn't recognise our tape drive when using the supplied kernels.  We have an
Emulex TC12 (ts11 compatible) tape controller which has worked quite happily
under all previous 4.x BSD releases.  4.3 Reno, recognises that there is some
sort of controller present but complains that "zs0: didn't interrupt".  I
have managed to get around the problem by using a modified version of the
driver from 4.3BSD and now have to wait for a suitable weekend to do the rest
of the installation!

>mike
>mwm at hslrswi.hasler.ascom.ch

James

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