Do remember, vs3100m30 (and I believe m38's) have a problem with the
SCSI support (PIO only at best, 30k/sec while locking the console
up...).  I netboot/nfs everything important on mine, leaving oddball
config files and html on the SCSI disk (my internet connection can't eat
30k/sec generally).

Jacob Suter


Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
> 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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