Subject: Re: HOWTO: Install to local disk on a netbooted 4000/60?
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/16/2004 17:36:29
> 
> Wow, that one even works! How to proceed from here?
> 
> >>> boot dka0
> 
>  .
> -DKA0
> >> NetBSD/vax boot [1.11 Wed Jul 14 19:06:38 UTC 2004] <<
> >> Press any key to abort autoboot0 
> nfs_open: must mount first.
> open netbsd.vax: Device not configured

Hm, something doesn't work as expectet :-/

Try to type "boot sd(0,0)netbsd" and see if it works any better,
if not then try "boot rom(0,0)netbsd".

Obviously the boot program fails to diagnose which type of device it
was loaded from, or something.  There are no standalone scsi routines 
in the boot program for the scsi controllers, so the program rely on
that VMB has setup everything for the rom routines.  Therefore the
boot program can only load the kernel from disk if it itself is loaded 
from disk, it's not possible to load boot from ethernet and then the
kernel from disk.  Someone should write the standalone scsi code...

-- Ragge