Subject: Re: VS3100 disk boot error message
To: Paul Schuh <paul@the-nexus.com>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/07/1998 18:51:48
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul Schuh wrote:

> Howdy all, many thanks to this lists members who answered my questions
> before I asked them. :-)
> 
> My Vaxstation 3100 M38 SPX is netbooting fine. I am trying to get the
> system to boot from the scsi hard drive in the system. Everything seems
> fine... 'disklabel -B sd0' doesn't complain, but when I get to the kernal
> prompt, >>> and type 'b SDK100', I get the following error message:
> 
> -DKA100
> howto 0x0, bdev 0x2a, booting...Boot failed, saerrno 2

This looks like the boot block is loaded, and starts executing. The only
thing it does, however, is loading /boot. You seem to be missing that file
in your root.

	Johnny

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