Subject: Re: sysinst, VS-3100 CD Boot
To: None <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Ian Harding <iharding@pakrat.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/11/2001 15:33:36
jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de wrote:

> On 10 Feb, Ian Harding wrote:
>
> > What I think I need to do is to somehow bypass sysinst, at least
> > initially, and see what is going on.
> When the /boot program is loaded and counts from 5 sec. down press the
> space key, enter
> boot netbsd -s
> (or netbsd.gz, depends on the CD)
> at the boot prompt and you will get to a single user shell.
>
> Yust put a disklabel and file systems on your disk(s), untar the dist
> sets, make des device nodes, make the root disk bootable ("disklabel -B
> sd0"), edit /etc/rc of the root disk, reboot and thats it.
> --
>
> tschüß,
>          Jochen
>
> Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/

I am already stuck.  I keep getting Boot failed: File or directory not
found.  I tried typing th epath to the image as in
/vax/binary/kernel/netbsd.generic.gz and that did not work either.  Any
other ideas?

Ian