Actually, the miniroot was on a second tape (as mentioned ealier on in my
message). I'm wondering if either the method with which I prepped the
files for the tape or my actions afterward would have caused the failure.
Thanks for your quick response, anyway.

regards,

On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Arno Griffioen wrote:

> > On a reboot to execute boot from the miniroot I kept getting the message
> > that the directory couldn't be found. I used all the combinations of
> > netbsd, gennetbsd, /netbsd, /gennetbsd, with mt(0,1) and ra(0,1,1) in an
> > attempt to boot from either the miniroot on partition b or the tape
> > miniroot. Nothing but the "can't find" message. I rewrote the tape on a
> > different tape using the process as above but still the same result. 
> 
> Wasn't there a problem with 1.2x versions not copying a second file from 
> tape correctly?
> 
> When I installed 1.2 on my 3600 I used 2 separate tapes. One for the 
> boot/edlabel/copy and the other containing the miniroot.
> 
> Then I just copied the stuff from mt(0,0) to ra(1,0,1) (my disk is
> on a second controller). Booted without a hitch..
> 
> If this problem persists, perhaps you should try the 1.1A install
> tapes.
> 
> Hope this helps a bit..
> 
> 							Bye Arno.
> 
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