On 2014-05-22 16:51, Holm Tiffe wrote:
Johnny Billquist wrote:On 2014-05-22 16:28, Holm Tiffe wrote:Johnny Billquist wrote:On 2014-05-22 15:54, Holm Tiffe wrote:Next thing would be NEtbooting and teht the folowing available releases and to find out where it stops. Anyone knows what the kernel tries next after putting out this "root file system is ffs" (or so?). That is where 1.6.2 simply halts...I seem to remember that the main reason if it stops there is if you do not have /dev populated. JohnnyHmm, it halts wenn booting from the vax.iso from NetBSD.org. Not sure if /dev is populated properly there :-))Oh. I thought it halted when booting your disk. I would expect the CD to have /dev populated. More recent versions will setup a /dev on the fly if it don't exist, but it takes a hell of a long time on a VAX, I can tell... But I have no memory of that ability being in 1.5.3. JohnnyHmm.. that wasn't there as I've experimented last time with taht rtVAX and netbooting.. but I'll look for, just in case ...
Don't hurt to check. And I definitely remember the system just hanging if /dev wasn't populated.
Another thing: It is curious, but I can't get the M38 boot from sd0 (dka300).
[...]I don't think it was ever not supported to boot, but getting the disk label on the disk, as well as getting the boot blocks on the disk used to be very tricky. The tools did not work well.
The fact that you seem to have a fictitious label suggests that this is your problem.
Afraid I can't give good instructions at that point. I used to have to jump through various hoops, incantations of disklabel and bypassing the disk cache in order to get a label on the disk.
Johnny