Subject: Personal DECStation 5000/25 Installation Problems...
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Robert Rusek <rusek@alpha.fdu.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/21/1996 23:53:48
My 5000/25 came with Ultrix 4.4 on it.  Due to lack of support I 
opted to upgrade to NetBSD 1.2 pmax port.

To do this I needed to clean up the boot partition.  I think that I had
done a bad thing by moveing the /bin directory to usr partition.
After doing this my Decstation goes through its boot process but locks up.

The process is as follows:  Prom comes up and starts loading the Ultrix 4.4 
loader.  Loader start to boot 3/rz2/vmunix.  Vmunix starts loading 
and performs a hardware detection.  After detecting the: fb: Module 
type OMAG-DV 1024X768, system halts.  

This is the spot where it would usually start checking the partions.

Is there anyway from the PROM to boot tftp/bootp?  If not what do I 
need to do to get the NetBSD miniroot running on the machine.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

Thank you in advance,
  
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Robert Rusek
Systems Network Analyst
Farleigh Dickinson University
rusek@fdu.edu / RobRusek@aol.com
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