On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:24:02AM +0100, Jochen Kunz
wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:04:26 -0500 Sam Carleton
> <scarleton-prep@miltonstreet.com> wrote:
> 
> > In the first step you refer to the "(S)hell" prompt.
> > This I am not seeing.  When I boot off the sysinst.fs
> > image, I get a prompt "Boot: ".  I have tried typing
> > "boot -s" to get to single user mode, it doesn't
> > work:(  
>
> Let the disk boot with the default boot parameters.
> (I.e. do nothing and wait. ;-) ) Once the sysinstall
> programm runs it presents a menue that has an entry like
> "Leave to shell"...

Hum, I never see the prompt "Leave to shell".
 
> > Ultimately it goes through the bootup sequence and
> > runs into a kernel panic because there is no init. 
>
> Did you use the generic.fs or the sysinst.fs image to
> create the boot floppy? You need sysinst.fs.

Well, I am using the sysinst.fs from:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/prep/installation/floppy/

Is that the right one?
 
> > A bit of info about my 7248.  I have removed the
> > 2.25GB SCSI drive that came with the machine and
> > installed a 20GB IDE drive 
>
> IDE? I can't remember any IDE connectors in my 7248-100.
> Do you use a PCI IDE adapter?  -- 

Ha, I searched the web for info about the 7248 and IDE and
found some postings that informed me that there where IDE
ports on the motherbard.  When I looked, sure enough,
there where two ports!

Sam