Sorry for my previous posting, don't know where the body-text has gone ...

At 17:53 19.06.99 +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
>To make a filesystem from a decstation I would assume that this would 
>be a simple way (even if netboot is simpler :-)
O.K., i tried netbooting and was able to see those four blocks 
of numbers and a hex-number as the kernel was loading. But after that 
i didn't see anything more on my laptop that is connected to 
the first MMJ port of the machine ( i tried the other MMJ-Ports too). 
I was able to ping the vax, maybe the support for the serial console 
doesn't work on my machine.
> 
># disklabel -W sd0 Enable writing to boot sector 
># dd if=hpboot of=/dev/rsd0c Write the vax boot sector, destroys old label 
># disklabel sd0 > /tmp/hej Save proto disklabel 
># disklabel -R sd0 /tmp/hej Write fresh disklabel 
># disklabel -e -r sd0 Edit new disklabel 
># newfs sd0blah... Newfs the new partitions. 
> 
>This is totally untested but it may work :-) 
> 
>-- Ragge
no, this doesn't work. The vax hangs with
83 BOOT SYS 
?50 SCB2NDINT, DKA200 
85 RESTART SYS
this also happens, when i dd the miniroot.fs to the harddisk.
Booting from tape with the 1.4 miniroot
> boot rom()netbsd.gz -d
gives the following error:
631588+1266332+150812+[53616\ 
85 RESTART SYS 
84 FAIL
Booting from NetBSD 1.3.2 tape brings 
up a bootloader-prompt, but 
: rom()netbsd 
or 
: rom()netbsd.gz 
result in: 
No such file or directory
I think i'll have to get an old VMS Version to get the vax up :-((
Thanks to everyone for help and 
suggestions,
Jan.