Re: boot VaxStation 4000/60 from disk

Hi,

Martin Reindl <[email protected]> wrote: 
> "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
I've done above commands. There was no output to the disklabel command, so 
no error at least. However, nothing changed when I try booting from the 
disk.

I just wonder, should I really copy the boot file to /boot on the nfs root? 
or should I have copied it onto the disk? I don't really understand, for 
what the copy has to be done.

kind regards
Sebastian