Wolfgang Rupp wrote:
> 
> Thordur Ivarsson wrote:
> > sd1 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LP80S  980809404, 3.3> SCSI2
> > 0/direct fd
> > root file system type: ffs
> > init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11
> >
> > nothing more..
> 
> I also get this far only. Nothing more. The difference is that on
> my box the kernel does not recognize where it booted from:
> 
> boot device: <unknown>
> root device: sd0a [entered by hand]
> dump device: (default sd0b):
> file system (default generic):
> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> mountroot: trying cd9660...
> mountroot: trying nfs...
> mountroot: trying lfs...
> mountroot: trying ffs...
> root file system type: ffs
> init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11
> --[box is dead]---
> 
> I can boot from disk and then mount / over nfs, though.
> Disk access itself is fast and o.k.
> 
Get the new bootprogram and bootstrap from 

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/vax/kernels/
they are named boot.991023 and xxboot.991023
"Get both of them!" (I misunderstood (grin))

copy boot.991023 to /boot
disklabel -B -b xxboot.991023 disk_name


I made the big mistake not build the "/dev/" entries.
Mount the "/"(root) disk(slice)  to the tree, cd to /mountpoint/dev, run
./MAKEDEV.local or ./MAKEDEV all or what ever apropriate.

Hope it helps

Thordur Ivarsson

Now running VAX3100m20 from own disks.