Re: installing on a 7248
Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep |
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On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 22:04:26 -0500 Sam Carleton <[email protected]> wrote: > In the first step you refer to the "(S)hell" > prompt. This I am not seeing. When I boot off the > sysinst.fs image, I get a prompt "Boot: ". I have tried > typing "boot -s" to get to single user mode, it doesn't > work:( Let the disk boot with the default boot parameters. (I.e. do nothing and wait. ;-) ) Once the sysinstall programm runs it presents a menue that has an entry like "Leave to shell"... > Ultimately it goes through the bootup sequence and runs > into a kernel panic because there is no init. Did you use the generic.fs or the sysinst.fs image to create the boot floppy? You need sysinst.fs. > A bit of info about my 7248. I have removed the 2.25GB > SCSI drive that came with the machine and installed a 20GB > IDE drive IDE? I can't remember any IDE connectors in my 7248-100. Do you use a PCI IDE adapter? -- tschüß, Jochen Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/