Subject: Re: Booting 3000 300LX
To: None <Matt.Foster@unilever.com, port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/07/1998 22:11:02
> From: "Matt Foster" <Matt.Foster@unilever.com>
> ...
>
> Having mucked around with netboot for some time and had no joy, I found an
> old SCSI disk, and dd'ed the floppy boot image onto it to kick off my
> install.  It booted fine, until getting to the point where the kernel
> pointed out there was no support for 3000 300 LX, and died.  Can someone
> point me to a place I can get a suitable kernel to kick off the NetBSD
> install on this box?

OK, I created a `floppy' image for the TC alphas (3000/xxx) that should
also work fine if dd(1)'ed to a HD.

See

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/alpha/misc/tcboot

This should be dd(1)'ed onto a floppy or HD with:

	dd if=tcboot of=/dev/rfd0a bs=18k

Please let us know how this works.

  --Ross Harvey