Paul Apprich wrote:
> 
> 
> -DKA100
> 
> howto 0x1, bdev 0x2a, booting...done. (31448+22260)
> >> NetBSD/vax boot [980110 22:29] <<
> : rom()netbsd
> 

  I guess you copied boot to /, right?  Otherwise it wouldn't get this far.

> changing rpb->unit from 100 to 1
> 
>  83 BOOT SYS
> ?4D DEVOFFLINE
>  84 FAIL
> 
> >>>
> 

  Hmmm...you're sure /netbsd didn't get corrupted or something?  That looks
exactly like what I did and what mine does (well, except that mine boots the
kernel.)
  You're sure that you wrote the bootblocks (the xxboot-renamed-to-sdboot part)
from 1.3 and not 1.3_ALPHA?

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