boot VaxStation 4000/60 from disk
"Sebastian Reitenbach" <[email protected]> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:31:04 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.vax |
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| Organization | L00 bugdead prods. |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, after I got a serial cable working, thanks for all of your suggestions, I was able to install OpenBSD via network (MOP). A dmesg can be found here: https://www.l00-bugdead-prods.de/VaxStation.dmesg.txt Due to limited disk space, I only installed bsd, base43.tgz, and etc43.tgz. After the usual "Congratulations, your system is successfully installed..." I rebooted. In the chevron prompt I told the box to boot from hard disk, but this fails, with the following error message: ?43 FILESTRUCT I assume I have to prepare the disk in a given way, to be able to boot from it? Or do I have to enter special parameters to the boot command on the chevron prompt? I know from my old SGI Indigo, I have to tell the box, that there is a different operating system than the "standard" one coming, to be able to boot NetBSD, maybe I have to do sth similar? I also did not fiddled around with disk geometry or sth. like that, when I installed OpenBSD onto the disk, maybe I should have done sth? The box itself seems to work fine, I can boot a NFS root filesystem via network, but it refuses to boot from disk. kind regards Sebastian