Subject: Re: Booting from hard disk fails
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Thorsten Jens <thojens@gmx.de>
List: port-vax
Date: 09/07/2000 21:53:19
* Per Larsson:

> On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Thorsten Jens wrote:
> 
> > 
> > >> NetBSD/vax boot [Mar 7 2000 04:32:44] <<
> > >> Press any key to abort autoboot 0
> > > boot netbsd
> > changing rpb->unit from 100 to 1 
> > 619520+1118928+151904 total=0x1cd834
> > 
> > And then that's it. I hear two short beeps and I can hear the other
> > hard disks spinning up, but the terminal shows nothing more. Is that
> > a 1.4.2 issue? Can anyone provide a 1.5_Alpha boot.fs?
> 
> This sounds like the old 'Firmware console on one port, kernel output on
> another' problem. Might this be the case? I know it is fixed in newer
> kernels, but I'm note sure if 1.4.<digit> is a member of 'newer'.

I thought something like that, too. Especially since there certainly
*is* activity after those last lines. I just couldnt find a boot.fs
newer than 1.4.2.

Thorsten
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