Subject: Re: Question on booting VS3100M76
To: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/12/1998 03:03:19
	Could you try it with just one drive connected temporarily?

	Also try rom()boot as a test.

On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Paul Apprich wrote:

> 
> 
> >    Dave's rant:
> >
> > 	Is it not loading the kernel at all? (Apologies if you've
> > 	mentioned this before - I've been somewhat buried emailwise). 
> > 
> > 	Could you recap your situation - can you netboot the PIO kernel
> > 	and disklabel your disk OK?
> > 	
> 
> 	I have done the following sucessfully:
> 
> * Set up a 486 box w/ NetBSD 1.3
> * Configured the files necessary for bootserving
> * Booted the VS3100 from the server using the 1.2G, 1.3 and 1.3 PIO strains
> * disklabel'd all hard drives.
>   /dev/sd0 rz24e
>   /dev/sd1 rz24e
>   /dev/sd2 seagate/imprimis/cdc st41200n 1931/15/70
> * wrote the low boot code to /dev/sd0a
> * copied 'boot' (high boot code) to / on sd0a
> * copied the PIO kernel to / on sd0a
> * ran 'set bflg 3' in the boot monitor
> * No saerror 2 problems (low boot sees and loads high boot)
> 
> 	The problem is when I tell boot to load the kernel in a PIO 
> fashion 'rom()netbsd', it's like the kernel is not even there. Yer if I 
> try to boot it in a DMA fashion, it will proceed and give me the c8's of 
> death whether I set it for dka0 or dka100.
> 
> P.S.A
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