Thanks to all who answered. Dumb question #2: I don't have a tape drive.
Where can I get '/boot'? Can I extract it manually from the tape files
without a tape drive?

-- Paul

> 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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