Re: Using SIMH vax and NetBSD-5.1.2

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

On 03/17/2012 08:38 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Hello!
> With this new faster system I decided that I could go ahead and try
> again with running NetBSD via SIMH-vax and indeed I managed to launch
> the CD in the install mode.
>
> However there is one specific stumbling block. In this case its the CD
> itself, despite having been booted that way the installer claims that
> the mount string:
> "
>     Status: Command failed
>      Command: /sbin/mount -rt cd9660 /dev/cd0a /mnt2
>       Hit enter to continue
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /mnt2: Device not configured
> "
> is not working. That is the command is shown there. Otherwise the
> instructions that Lars Brinkhoff created work well enough with this
> release (of SimH). Otherwise I also find that I would need to tell the
> installer what the networking method is for the Ethernet widget is so
> that I could also fetch the sets from the NetBSD site and its mirrors
> to make a network based install also work.
>
> Suggestions please gentlemen.
I assume that you use ka650 as CPU?  Then the CD reader is a MSCP device,
and you should look at the boot messages about which device it is (like 
ra1 or so,
the CD player is called RRD40 IIRC).

-- Ragge