Re: installing on a 7248

Jochen Kunz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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?
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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