On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:

> On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, George Sollish wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm sorry I don't have my 780 with me, but I seem to remember having to
> > add some options (-a something) to the bootloader to avoid this with my 1G
> > Microdrive before I built a custom kernel.  If memory serves, you need to
> > tell the loader root is ffs and on wd0a.
> >
> > Eventually you can hardwire this into your new kernel.  Good luck!
>
> I've seen references to using -b=wd0 as a boot option (at least, that what
> I think this web page is saying:
>
> http://www.jp.netbsd.org/ja/JP/ml/port-hpcmips-ja/200001/msg00000.html)
>
> Unfortunately, that didn't solve the problem...  Is there a definate
> reference somewhere for NetBSD boot options?
>
> Adam

See the NetBSD/hpcmips User How-To page, "NetBSD/hpcmips boot loader
options" at www.netbsd.org.  Having read that again, on the pbsdboot.exe
config graphic enter '-a' under options and the boot will stop and ask for
the root location and filesystem type.  Worked on my NEC 780.

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