Re: boot VaxStation 4000/60 from disk

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

> 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.
> 

Sorry, from your NFS, mount sd0, then do

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