Subject: RE: decstation5k/2x headaches
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Debros, Frederic M.,Md <FDEBROS@PARTNERS.ORG>
List: port-pmax
Date: 05/03/2003 07:37:44
	[Debros, Frederic M.,Md]  

	I still struggle
	tmout ..... all the time
	//var/log reads server not found...
	so now I'll try cd load instead
	i have a cdrom that is recognized and shows on >>  .. at least that!

	Q: what is the boot cmd for a descstation 5000/240 for netbsd pmax
image 1.6 on a cd i recently burned off netbsd.org? 
	i also bot the WASABI  disk, but that was for the vaxstations. 
	i dont know which file "it" wants to load initially.

	Fred





> > 
> > > on a linux suse 8.0 machine, i'm trying hard, but it stops somewhere
> before
> > > ecoff....any easy howto? i must have something wrong in the path of
> tftp or
> > > bootp.
> > 
> > I'm not sure I understand your question.  You've got your suse box as
> > the TFTP server, and your decstation can't find the image when it tries
> > to boot?
> > 
> > I use dhcp instead of bootp, and have an entry like:
> > 
> > 	host pmax {
> > 		hardware ethernet       08:00:2b:2f:d5:58;
> > 		fixed-address           pmax;
> > 		server-name             "myserver";
> > 		filename                "pmax.root/netbsd";
> > 		option  root-path       "/tftpboot/pmax.root";
> > 	}
> > 
> > Then I just boot the decstation with
> > 
> > 	boot 3/tftp
> > 
> > I think the "INSTALL.txt" file in the release notes documents this (eg
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/pmax/INSTALL.txt).
> > 
> > Simon.
> > --
> > Simon Burge                            <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
> > NetBSD Support and Service:         http://www.wasabisystems.com/
> >