Subject: Re: Problem booting a 370
To: None <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Chris Trown <ctrown@ecst.csuchico.edu>
List: port-hp300
Date: 08/03/1995 10:00:25
Jason Thorpe sez
>
> On Wed, 2 Aug 1995 22:16:22 -0700 (PDT)
> Chris Trown <ctrown@ecst.csuchico.edu> wrote:
>
> > "Well this sucks" I said to myself, and went on a quest to get around it.
> > I installed .9C without really knowing that it was an older version.
>
> Heh .. ``Really older.'' 0.9C was pretty bad on the hp300...I didn't
> know there were even still images of it around :-) Mine died with my
> last 7945...
I found it on gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/BSD/NetBSD/arch/hp300
>
> Sounds vaguely like you don't have anything in /dev on the new disk...
> If you've still got the 0.9C stuff around, mount the 1.0 disk and run
> MAKEDEV in the right place...While you're at it, untar the 1.0 binaries
> there, too.
>
That was the problem all right. Made all the devices, and it came up.
Thanks to all for your help!
>
> > Also, how do I boot a system on a different disk without having to change
> > the disks' addresses?
>
> Hit the <spacebar> during bootrom initialization ... you'll get a choice.
>
I using a terminal connected via the serial port. When I turn it on, it
looks like it thinks it's still connected to a HP terminal. Looks like a lot
of terminal control codes. Any way to change that?
Chris...
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