> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Mattias Nordlund wrote:
> > I have installed NetBSD 1.5 on a VAX4000-300 with a CMD scsi controlller
> > and the installation went just fine and it found my RZ26L as ra0 (think it
> > found it as a RA80?). But when trying to boot from the disk it will only
> > go as far as the boot-loader, but not any longer. When it is supposed to
> > load the kernel it just sits there. I guess there is something wrong with
> > the bootloader, but what can it be? Can it be that it install a
> > ra-bootblock wich can't boot the scsi disk or the other way around, and
> > how do I change bootblock if so is the case?
> 
> Your disk is just MSCP, which means those RA??-devices. Is your controller
> correctly configured for the hard drive? Most MSCP controllers have a nice
> configuration in the PROMs. MSCP booting is definitely possible on the
> 4000/300, at least was with 1.5_ALPHA or so, because i use it here wit a
> KFQSA controller and a RF71 DSSI disk.
> 

The controller is working as far as I know, it was used before this in a
MicroVAX 3400, and it works fine to boot the ISO from a non-DEC cdrom
on. I haven't had time to see if I could get VMS to boot from a SCSI disk
on that card. And in the nice PROM on the CMD the controller is configured
as disk-only and sees both the scsi-disk and the cd-rom without problem.
This seems more like a problem with the bootloader then controller-config
(as the cd will boot, and the disk will load the bootloader, but hang when
it want to load the kernel)

/Mattias