On Thu, 6 Feb 1997, Phil Nelson wrote:

you did not install boot blocks. If you're install ig NetBSD on that disk, 
use the miniroot filesystem and dd it just like the instructions say.

rob
> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I recently tried to boot NetBSD-1.2 on my SparcStation 5.  I'm currently
> running SunOS 4.1.3_U.  Here is what I did:
> 
>   I had an extra 100 meg partition so I put in a copy of netbsd and
> untarred base.tar.gz into that partition.  (/dev/sd1a)
> 
>   I then tried to bood from sd1a by saying:
> 
>      boot disk1:a netbsd -s
> 
> The rom monitor then proceeds to tell me that the file read off the disk is
> not an executable file.  I tried a stripped version of netbsd also.  I then
> tried a copy of the miniroot with the 1.2 distribution.  In all cases, netbsd
> is declared to "not an executable file".
> 
> Did I forget to set some ROM environment variable?  
> 
> Does anyone have any helpful hints?
> 
> 
> -- 
> Phil Nelson                       NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org
> e-mail: phil@cs.wwu.edu           LPF: http://www.lpf.org
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> 

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