Anders Magnusson wrote:
NetBSD/vax used this before also; there were a small install filesystem
that could fit on a TU58 which had three binaries: boot, copy and edlabel.
They were removed in favour for the more modern sysinst, and all of it worked
when we switched.
"worked". how?
To boot a 11/7xx, the only thing you need is to get boot in some form onto
the tape or floppy. If you cannot get objcopy to make an image file of
boot, convert it to a.out, load it raw and start at address 22.
I have a working boot.
But, simplest is always to dd the miniroot onto a tape. Then you can use
whatever you want (VMB, for example) to boot from it.
I urge you to try to copy and boot any released miniroot (from netbsd
3,4 or 5) on 780.