Re: installing on a 7248
Sam Carleton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.prep |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 11:24:02AM +0100, Jochen Kunz wrote: > 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"... Hum, I never see the prompt "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. Well, I am using the sysinst.fs from: ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.1/prep/installation/floppy/ Is that the right one? > > 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? -- Ha, I searched the web for info about the 7248 and IDE and found some postings that informed me that there where IDE ports on the motherbard. When I looked, sure enough, there where two ports! Sam