Re: Booting DS5000/240 from CDROM

Gordon Zaft <[email protected]> Sat, 12 Nov 2016 16:15:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.pmax
Message-ID <CAGuhNT0ty=pFNCxheLO7ikqgj8ih_8_t8NpzJHZgkP7vtBXkwg@mail.gmail.com>
Okay it is now seeing my HDD.  When I do a boot 3/rz6/netbsd  I get ?IO:
3/rz6/netbsd (bb rd) .  So I'm thinking either it doesn't like the CDROM
drive or the actual CD...

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 3:54 PM, Gordon Zaft <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Sorry to followup to my own post.  Still not able to boot.
>
> I did a cnfg 3 and it sees the CDROM.  It's not seeing my HDD though which
> makes me wonder if there's some weird termination problem.
>
> G
>
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Gordon Zaft <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Apologies, I've not done this in a while.
>>
>> I'm trying to install from CD (A -current build I was pointed to for
>> testing).  I downloaded and burned the ISO.  My CDROM (not a DEC one though
>> I do have one, but this one seems more reliable) is et to SCSI ID 6 and my
>> HDD is set to SCSI ID 3.
>>
>> I tried to boot with
>>
>> boot 3/rz6/netbsd
>>
>> with no success.  I thought 3 was the device/slot # and 6 is the SCSI ID?
>>
>> I looked at ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0.2/pmax/INSTALL.
>> html#Install%20via%20a%20NetBSD%20CD-ROM
>>
>> but it does not actually tell you how to boot the CD there, which is odd.
>>
>> Help, please?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> Gordon Zaft
>> Province 35 Governor
>> Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
>> [email protected]
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Gordon Zaft
> Province 35 Governor
> Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
> [email protected]
>



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Gordon Zaft
Province 35 Governor
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
[email protected]