Re: Problems installing 7.0.1 on SS5

"never mind"

I should read the docs more carefully. Of course the answer is that due to the wonders of OpenBoot mapping of SCSI targets, it was trying to boot off of what NetBSD calls sd1, and there's no boot device there.

The fix is to tell openboot to boot from disk1:a .

Sorry to bug y'all!

On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Gordon Zaft <gordonzaft%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:

I'm trying to install 7.0.1 on a SparcStation 5 with the 170MHz Turbosparc. I have 192MB RAM and 2 disks, a 2 GB disk (sd0) and an 18 GB disk (sd1). The machine has OpenBoot 2.29.

The install goes fine (I'm installing with sd0 for / and sd1 for /usr ). However after I am done installing and go to reboot, I get

boot device <blah>/sd@3,0:a File and args: netbsd
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable

and I'm back at the ok prompt.

I tried booting from the CDROM, dropping to shell and running

installboot /dev/rsd0c /usr/mdec/bootxx /boot

to try to reinstall the boot blocks. That didn't help.

Any ideas?

G

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Gordon Zaft
Province 35 Governor
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
gordonzaft%gmail.com@localhost