Subject: Re: VAX ISO CD's bootable?
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@netbsd.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/14/2002 15:28:26
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, M J Dowden wrote:

>      My version of Toast won't do that. I have to mount the disk image
> (which then appears to the OS as a disk) and then make a CD of that
> image. I downloaded NetBSD/VAX v1.52 to test it out, but I can't get
> it to work. I tried three different versions of ISO 9660 (Level 1, XA
> and Joliet). The error message (in all three cases) is:
>
> >>>boot dua3
> (BOOT/R5:0 DUA3)
>
>    2..
> -DUA3
> ?43 FILESTRUCT, DUA3
> ?06 HLT INST
>          PC = 00000D71
> Bootstrap failure.

  Unless Toast knows how to write a VAX bootstrap to the CD, you are out
of luck.  I don't know of any CD burning software that would even know
what a VAX is, much less be able to include the VAX bootstrap..


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