Subject: Re: Boot From ZIP Disk
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: benjamin p. myers <s1dative@exnet.iastate.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/24/1999 21:54:48
> >  I'm trying to boot my /25 from a IOMEGA ZIP 100 drive, I can see
> >  the drive being accessed but I got the following error message:
> >
> >    KN02-CA V2.1a
> >    >> boot "3/rz5/netbsd -a"
> >    ?IO:  3/rz5/netbsd -a  (bb rd)
> >
> >  I've created the disk with sysinst and when I mount the disk I see
> >  the kernel and other stuff so it doesn't seem to be corrupted.
> >
> >  Is there a kind of hardware incompatibility to do this?
> >
>
>I don't think so, because I've done it. I found that it would boot ok,
>but after about 10mins things would get a bit weird, followed by a
>lockup.
>
>I made the boot disk by using disklabel, newfs, and then copied across
>/bin /etc /sbin /dev etc. And the kernel of course

KN04 V2.1k  (PC: 0xa00265b8, SP: 
0xffffdeb0)
 >>boot 3/rz5/netbsd 
-a
Boot: 3/rz5/netbsd

Seems to work ok on my /50.  Except of course when the punk in the next 
office steals my scsi cable.

-benjamin p. myers