Subject: Fw: Now what?
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: David Sullivan <ds55@dimensional.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 02/06/1999 13:14:19
  For some reason, our newsserver has stopped receiving for this group.  So,
I am posting my idiotic question here.  Thanks.


-----Original Message-----
From: David Sullivan <ds55@dimensional.com>
Newsgroups: muc.lists.netbsd.port.alpha
Date: Friday, February 05, 1999 4:58 PM
Subject: Now what?


>Using the new two-part floppy, I was able to install (successfully) NetBSD
>onto an IDE laptop drive inside my Multia/UDB.  But how do I boot it given
>that:
>
>(1) No IDE devices are accessible from the SRM prompt;
>
>(2) Despite the fact of updating to the latest firmware, I cannot netboot
>(without an error message telling me to update the firmware).
>
>The installation floppy allows me to boot up, go to the shell prompt, mount
>the IDE drive partition and see all of nicely installed directories and
>binaries.  Now what?
>
>Thanks.  (I'm an idiot.)
>
>