Subject: Re: HOWTO: Install to local disk on a netbooted 4000/60?
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
From: None <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/15/2004 14:52:51
> On Sat, 2004-07-10 16:28:32 -0700, Blaz Antonic <blaz.antonic@siol.net>
> wrote in message <40F07BA0.DFD@siol.net>:
> > I just checked installation notes just for the heck of it - could
> > somebody be bothered to bring the vax-specific stuff up to date ? Like
> > the list of supported models and so on ? Maybe there won't be any new
> > Vaxen made ever again but that doesn't mean nothing has changed in the
> > OS land since the last update of install noets (judging by the contents
> > that was like 5 years ago).
> 
> Being new to NetBSD (but quite used to netbooting stuff in general), I
> just tried to install a VS4000/90A. The machine does have two HDDs,
> 2GB and 4GB. However, I just fail at booting it. I tried different
> "boot" files from the netboot subdirectories, but all of them fail to
> load (well, I think they properly load, but crash afterwards) with:
> 
> >>> b
> 
>  .
> -EZA0
> %VMB-F-SCBINT2, PC = 00000020, PSL = 00006611.
> ?06 HLT INST
>   PC= 0000172A PSL= 041F0000
> 
> Any hints for me?
> 
Be sure that your boot program is in MOP format; the NetBSD mopd can load
ELF boot programs as well but it may not work if you use another mopd.

You can try ftp://bakfull.campus.luth.se/netbsd/boot.mop, which is the
boot loader that I use to netboot a /90, so it should work :-)

-- Ragge