Subject: Re: How to make VaxStation 3100 automatically boot NetBSD?
To: Georg Schwarz <georg.schwarz@freenet.de>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/07/2005 17:26:23
> I've just installed NetBSD 2.0 on a VaxStation 3100. Unlike 1.6.2,.
> which core dumped binaries, it works absolutely fine so far.
> One thing I haven't found out is how to make the machine boot
> automatically.
> I have SET BOOT DKA100 (I'm using the SCSI 0 disk as the boot device),
> and in fact the NetBSD boot loader kicks in on startup. However, after
> counting down it just stops at the > prompt, and I still have to
> manually enter "boot netbsd".
> Is there a way to automatically tell the machine which kernel to load?
> I have used installboot sd0c /dev/sd0c /usr/mdec/sdboot /usr/mdec/boot
> to install the bootblocks.
> 

>>>SET BFLG 0

is probably what you need to do.

-- Ragge