One final idea - could you put a netbsd 1.2 kernel on the working
	scsi disk (as '/netbsd.test' or something, and then try booting
	single user into that kernel to see if its something to do with
	the disk setup or purely the kernel...

On Tue, 5 Nov 1996, David Rosenthal wrote:

> I installed 1.2 from the FTPed files onto a freshly formatted wd0,  and used
> it for the following steps.
> 
> I copied using dump 0f - | ( cd /foo ; restore xf - ) the filesystems
> from wd0 to sd0.
> 
> I put the 1.2 boot blocks onto sd0 using disklabel -B
> 
> I built a kernel configed with root and swap on sd0 and installed it
> in the root of sd0.  The first time I tried this wdc and wd* were
> included.  The next time they were not included.  It made no difference.
> 
> I shut the system down,  physically removed wd0 and tried to reboot from sd0.
> I tried this on two machines and got the same result on both.
> 
> The hardware in question (except for the disk drives) was running NetBSD1.1
> (with both a 1.1 and a 1.2beta kernel) with root and swap on sd0,  a
> different drive which,  thank the Lord,  I did not overwrite.  It is still
> running 1.1 with a 1.2beta kernel.
> 
> This is all the information I can give you.  I can no longer repeat the
> experiment because I have had to return the sd0 on which I installed 1.2
> to its previous use.
> 
> Can anyone report that they FTP-ed the binaries from NetBSD.org,  installed
> them on a machine running from sd0,  and had it work OK?
> 
> 	David.
>