Subject: Re: Request Guidance
To: Kirk Russell <kirk@ba23.org>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@Update.UU.SE>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/16/2005 23:27:29
On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Kirk Russell wrote:

> On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, Richard Tomkins wrote:
>
>> I have an extensive background in various systems, DEC, Mac, PC. I have
>> done a lot of work with VMS, Tru64 UNIX, Mac OS X, Windows.
>>
>> I have a MV3100, model 10, which I was running vms 7.2 on a month ago. I
>> decided to look into the NetBSD port and obtained a ISO image of the
>> Version 2.0 release.
>>
>> I have booted this image and installed it on my MV3100, to the point where
>> sysinst feels that everything was a success. I used a CD-ROM at dkb200:
>>
>> My hard drive is dka0:
>>
>> So I type boot dka0 and the system responds with
>>
>> 83 BOOT SYS
>> -DKA0
>> ?50 SCB2NDINT, DKA0
>> 85 RESTART SYS
>>>>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea what may have gone wrong here?
>
> I would guess this is a known issue -- the bootstrap code was not
> installed on your hard disk:
> 	http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=28724
>
> To work-a-round, I would boot of the CDROM and get to shell prompt to
> run (I assume) "disklabel -B sd0".  You might have to mount your SCSI
> disk to get the /usr/mdec file that is required.

Is that still disklabel, or should we use installboot nowadays?

 	Johnny

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