Subject: Re: Unknown error code.....
To: Jon . <los_alamos@hotmail.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/15/1999 18:27:17
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to install NetBSD 1.4 using tapes. I am installing on a
> VAXStation 3100 Model 30, using the TK50Z tape drive. The box is currently
> running VMS 5.5, so I mount the TK50Z under VMS, with the switches
> /foreign/blocksize=512. Then, I use the halt switch on the back to go to
> the console prompt, type b/3 MKA100 (incidentally, why is the drive MKA100?
> All the docs say MUA0...) So, it begins to boot, and says "Press any key to
> abort autoboot 0". Well, it just leaves me at a > prompt, so I type boot
> netbsd, and the following appears:
>
> "Command failed: Unknown error: code 6553637"
>
> Can anyone shed some light on what this error code actually is? Any help is
> appreciated.
>
That means (in a somewhat cryptic way) that the boot program does not
support SCSI. Sorry.
-- RAgge