Subject: Re: Putting NetBSD-1.1 in the disk
To: Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires <PAPPIRES@novell.coppead.ufrj.br>
From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/04/1996 03:19:00
On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Paulo Alexandre Pinto Pires wrote:

> running NetBSD-1.1.  Now I have got a working SCSI disk which I 
> successfully disklabeled and soft-formatted with newfs, and which I 
> can mount even when booting with nfs.
> 
> The problem arrives when I try to boot from this disk.  I am not sure 
> if bootstraping binaries were actually written after i have run

  Always make sure the drive has parity disabled.  Sun3 boot proms can't 
boot SCSI disks with parity enabled.

Tom