Re: Help with info on Diskdrive

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.demon.co.uk@localhost>]

mclinch wrote:
>If I try :-
>boot> boot cd0:/netbsd
>loading cd0/netbsd to 10 000 000
>raw:  1876943 total: 0x1ca3cf
>exec: No Entry point

What is in the root directory of the CD ? Is there just the "netbsd"
kernel file or are there any other files of a similar size ?

You can read it on any PC.

>It seems to me that there are two possibilities :
>a The CDRom does not have a valid image on it

The CD doesn't need to be bootable, so the only thing that could go
wrong would be if the kernel file was in the wrong format.

>b The disc is bad.

Or it just doesn't have a disklabel, but you had suspected that
anyway.

Robert Swindells