Re: boot VaxStation 4000/60 from disk

"Sebastian Reitenbach" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

From your NFS enviroment, can your run:

cp /usr/mdec/boot /boot
/sbin/disklabel -B sd0

martin