Subject: Re: NetBSD 3.0 install from CD issues
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.org>
From: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/16/2006 00:47:11
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:05:22 +1030
Kim Hawtin <kim.hawtin@adelaide.edu.au> wrote:

> After a bit of mucking around I found that the microvax3100 just plain
> doesn't like booting off anything over a 1GB disk.
>=20
> Is this a well know issue?
Yes. It is a limitation of the firmware on some early MV3k1 / VS3k1
models. You may get away with a boot partition, that lies entirely in
the first 1 GB when you use a larger disk.
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

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