Subject: Re: Notes on 3.0 Install
To: None <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Peter_Fr=F6hlich?= <phf@cs.jhu.edu>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 01/26/2006 08:52:37
Hi all,

On Jan 26, 2006, at 08:25, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Peter Fr=F6hlich wrote:
>>  - When booting, I get several (from two to six I guess) failed boot=20=

>> attempts, the Qube
>>    says something about "wrong length" or so; I figure that's a disk=20=

>> problem, I used a
>>    very old 2 GB drive for this test. Unless someone else has similar=20=

>> issues?
>
> I doubt that's related to disk. IIRC you netboot the machine for this=20=

> install? Do you have any other DHCP servers that may serve bogus=20
> contents?

Wait, I am not net-booting anymore after the install is done, right? So=20=

why would the Qube even look for a kernel on the network (which I=20
assume you think is going on)? Or maybe I misunderstand completely...

Just to be clear, this doesn't happen *during* the install but *after*=20=

the install when I boot the Qube from disk.

Peter
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