Subject: making a bootable drive
To: netbsd help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: BrownM03 <BrownM03@bigpond.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/21/2001 02:34:32
Hello all !

I have netbsd 1.5 netbooting on my vax 4000/100
(I don't think this is a vax problem)
I have an external 270MB SyQuest drive connected,
and I'm trying to make it bootable.

I understand the procedure to be as follows:
disklabel -I -i sd0     (I setup a=15M,b=32M,c=200M)
newfs /dev/sd0c    (I couldn't do newfs /dev/sd0a because ba=0/fa=0)
mount /dev/sd0c /mnt/syquest
tar -zxpf base.tgz -C /mnt/syquest
(untar all of the distribution files)
disklabel -B sd0 -b /usr/mdec/sdboot

This doesn't work for me. I _believe_ that it should!
(hehe... I'm thinking that belief is not enough;)

Can anyone suggest where I may have gone wrong?

Marcus.