On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Thomas Mueller wrote:

> from Mattias Karlsson <keihan@sergei.cc>:
> 
> >I have some huge problems booting the floppies on my IBM PS/2 85 machine,
> >It's a MCA-bus system with SCSI interface onboard. I've tried to boot
> >using the i386 floppies but I just get "Boot fail", nothing else, really
> >wierd. I've also tried the arch/i386/ps2/boot-ps2-1.0.fs image but it
> >gave me the same respond.
> >
> >Also tried to use the dosboot.com utility in a existing MSDOS partition
> >to boot the binary/kernel/netbsd.INSTALL.gz, the kernel is loaded into
> >the memory then the screen goes blanc, and the system reboots.
> 
> When you tried dosboot.com, what syntax did you use?  Did you try to dosboot
> netbsd.INSTALL.gz, or did you gzip -d first?  I couldn't find any documentation
> on dosboot, so I don't know if there is anything more than
> dosboot kernel-name
> using the actual kernel-name in place of "kernel-name", and using a 
> DOS-compatible file name.

I just copied the gzipp'ed kernel on a floppy and gunziped it under DOS,
then I just used "dosboot <kernel>", it was as i said loaded and then
the machine rebooted.

Regards,
Mattias Karlsson.