Subject: Need help installing NetBSD on a 2100
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@lix.polytechnique.fr>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/09/1996 09:41:24
Hello all,

I'm still trying to install NetBSD on my 2100 decstation. I can now write and
read a netbsd disklabel from ultrix. I have dd'ed the miniroot onto the
disk with the command:
dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rrz2c seek=16
but when i try to boot i get (after a 'setenv bootpath rz(0,2,0)netbsd'):
>> boot
Boot: rz(0,2,0)netbsd
open(rz(0,2,0)netbsd) failed: 21
can't boot 'rz(0,2,0)netbsd'

Any idea ? Do i really have to install NetBSD/Sparc to be able to boot
NetBSD/pmax ?

Here is some info:
miniroot bootrz and rzboot comes from the 1.1 distribution.

-rw-r--r--  1 bouyer    6553600 Nov 25 07:04 miniroot

# ./disklabel rz2
# /dev/rrz2c:
type: SCSI
disk: rz55
label: 
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 36
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 540
cylinders: 1224
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # milliseconds
drivedata: 0 

5 partitions:
#        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
  a:    39960        0    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.    0 - 73)
  b:    39960    39960      swap                        # (Cyl.   74 - 147)
  c:   660960        0    unused     1024  8192         # (Cyl.    0 - 1223)
  e:   581040    79920    4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  148 - 1223)

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Manuel Bouyer, LIX, Ecole Polytechnique                                
email: bouyer@lix.polytechnique.fr                                     
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