Subject: Re: Netbooting netbsd.ram.gz fails on vax 4000/200
To: Jon Lindgren <jlindgren@slk.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/11/2000 16:50:16
At 07:47 AM 12/11/2000 -0500, Jon Lindgren wrote:
>On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Matt Thomas wrote:
>
> > At 03:43 PM 12/9/2000 -0500, Yubyub bird wrote:
> > >I've just started trying to install 1.5 on my 4000/200.  Booting a GENERIC
> > >kernel seems to work okay, however, the netbsd.ram.gz doesn't.
> > >
> > >In this example, I took netbsd.ram.gz, decompressed it, and named it
> > >netbsd (for sake of ease)...
> >
> > Because the install kernel doesn't have support for it.
>
>Is there somewhere which describes the exact process of partitioning and
>installing boot blocks for the vax?  If sysinst isn't available, I'll
>finally have to learn the nuances of partitioning, etc... on the vax.

If you can wait until I return from the IETF, I'll make a new netbsd.ram.gz
(note for those VS4000/90 folks, 
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/vax/netbsd.ram-VS4K90.gz
is a new sysinst kernel that includes support for the VS4000/90 SCSI adapter).


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