Subject: Re: NetBSD/vax-2.1 installation problems
To: Tonnerre LOMBARD <tonnerre@bsdprojects.net>
From: Charlie ROOT <root@dynamite.narpes.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/04/2006 23:28:19
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Tonnerre LOMBARD wrote:

> Salut,
> 
> We have a slight problem installing NetBSD/vax-2.1 on a
> MicroVAX 3100 using the CD-ROM method. (I don't find the exact
> model number.) When one runs disklabel -B sd0, it doesn't
> output anything but leaves the disk in an unbootable state. If
> however one runs installboot, it segfaults.
> 
> I don't have a second working VAX around, but we could maybe
> grab the coredump of installboot if that would help.
> 
> Ideas?

I recall that the 3100 ROM SCSI driver has a problem with large
disks.  The boot sector program uses the ROM driver to locate and
load the NetBSD kernel.  So how large is your SCSI-disk?  How
large is the NetBSD root partition, and where on the disk is it?

-aw