"Chris Tribo" wrote:

>     OK I downloaded the 1.4px Diskimage and renamed the generic kernel and
> boot; and moved the the px kernel and boot into / on rz0a. When I try to
> boot it It starts the first group of numbers with the spinner, then it sais
> read text and dumps me back to PROM and tried to boot again the same way
> over and over. Do I need to run the install program instead in this case?

If you're seeing the twiddle you shouldn't need to do anything else.
What numbers do you get (using generic.gz I'm guessing)?  Just looking
the kernel, you should see something like:

	>> NetBSD/pmax Secondary Boot, Revision 1.1
	>> (root@vlad, Fri Jul 16 12:48:23 EST 1999)
	Boot: 3/rz0/netbsd
	1477016+60416+350740 [xx+xxxxx+xxxxx]=0xxxxxxx
	Starting at 0x80030000

	[ preserving xxxxxx bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
	Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999
	    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.

and so on...


How far does it actually get?  I'd check the length of the file - it
should be 2216775 bytes ungzipped.  The boot blocks don't have a heap
of informative error messages if things go wrong...

Simon.