Hi Jochen,


There is one little problem; I never did any programming, I don't even =
know where to
start.
Are you willing to share your updated files with me?
In the meantime I shall send in a problem report on this matter.

Thanks,
Joop=20

-----Original Message-----
From: Jochen Kunz [mailto:jkunz@maja.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de]
Sent: maandag 7 oktober 2002 14:49
To: port-vax@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Inst. NetBSD 1.6 (ISO) --> MV3100/96


On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 11:21:01AM +0200, Braamse, Joop wrote:

> On my 4000-105A (=3D3100-95) I have similar problems.
\begin{AOL}
Mee2!
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But I know the problem and the solution to it. ;-)
The VAX4k100 / MV3100m9x does some things a bit different than
other VAXen of that type when it comes to booting. Unfortunately=20
I don't have enough knowledge about this internas to describe it
closer. Due to this difference this class of machine can boot NetBSD=20
only by one way: Netboot. Best is to load the kernel via net with
the option "-a" so that it asks for the root-fs to mount. You
can answer "sd0a" and the machine continues to boot from disk.=20
Or compile a custom kernel with the root-fs hardwired in it.=20

Hugh Graham from OpenBSD posted a mail about this some time ago:=20
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2002/06/28/0005.html
I applied the patches from that mail to my source (-current
of that time) and now my MV3100m95 can boot from its own SCSI
disk. (See: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-vax/2002/07/01/0000.html)

It would be nice if you can test this patches and report if they
work. Maybe this patches will find there way into NetBSD when=20
some users report success with them.=20

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hilmar B?hm [mailto:Hilmar.Boehm@hiro-consult.de]
> -  Sysinst:
#define Sysinst "/bin/sh"
;-)
--=20



tsch=FC=DF,
         Jochen

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