Re: VS3100M76 - current

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2014-05-22 16:28, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>
> > On 2014-05-22 15:54, Holm Tiffe wrote:
> > > Next thing would be NEtbooting and teht the folowing available releases
> > > and to find out where it stops.
> > > Anyone knows what the kernel tries next after putting out this "root file
> > > system is ffs" (or so?). That is where 1.6.2 simply halts...
> >
> > I seem to remember that the main reason if it stops there is if you do
> > not have /dev populated.
> >
> >         Johnny
>
> Hmm, it halts wenn booting from the vax.iso from NetBSD.org. Not sure if
> /dev is populated properly there :-))

Oh. I thought it halted when booting your disk.
I would expect the CD to have /dev populated.

More recent versions will setup a /dev on the fly if it don't exist, but 
it takes a hell of a long time on a VAX, I can tell...
But I have no memory of that ability being in 1.5.3.

        Johnny