At 12:43 PM 5/26/2000 -0400, NetBSD Bob wrote:
> > Huh?  There is no miniroot that it boots.  Install doesn't work that
> > way anymore.  It boots a kernel with a ramdisk.  The ramdisk has a set
> > of set of installation tools including sysinst.
>
>Sorry, thinking VAX but writing Sun3 (also giving me fits).
>Let me rephrase that.  It did the boot and partitioning and install, but
>then did not reboot on the MV3100/10, after the installation completed.

That's strange.  I had no problems on a VS4000/60.

> > sysinst will partition & newfs a disk and then extract the installation
> > tar files on it and then setup the devices and install boot blocks.
>
>Yep, it did that fine, but would not reboot.  The boot loader came up,
>V.1.7 or something like that, then it froze, when the kernel was supposed
>to load.

Hmmm.  You did extract the kernel subset, right?

>Anything I should be looking at there?  I was using a VT420/VT100 terminal,
>and did not see anything come back to it after the boot loader.  Is there
>something I need to set differently on the MV3100, vs something like
>a VS3100/M38?

Can you capture the console output and send it to me?


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