Dear James.

If I remember right, you need to partition the disks using fx.
http://www.gbnet.net/~jrg/irix-install.html
Then after you are done, proceed to install netbsd.
At least this is what I recall doing.

Good luck.

Dominick Dreiser.


james ozone (engineering) wrote:

>i feel like a total noob for asking, but: now that i've installed netbsd
>on this indy (long story short, there really is a "generation gap" with
>new scsi disks and 10-year old boot proms...) it won't boot.
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>>>boot
>>>      
>>>
>Unable to load scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)/boot: no such file or directory
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>where nvram settings are per the install docs:
>
>SystemPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(8)
>OSLoadPartition=scsi(0)disk(1)rdisk(0)partition(0)
>OSLoader=boot
>OSLoadOptions=auto
>OSLoadFilename=netbsd.ecoff
>
>hinv agrees that there's a disk at target 1, and sysinst installed on it.
>
>installation was via netboot, using diskimage.tgz and friends, hosted on a
>netbsd/sparc64 2.1 box with the requisite ip.anonport sysctls. from the looks
>of things, either the OSLoader is wrong, or sysinst didn't populate vh on
>the disk... but 3.0 has been out long enough that this issue would already
>have been across the list, methinks.
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