Installing bootblocks on 3.2 snapshot

Sean Cavanaugh <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Oct 2002 23:43:46 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi all,

I am trying to install the (Oct 4) snapshot on my uVAX 3100-80 after 
trying out VMS for a while.

I installed via netboot from my i386 machine, and everything went well. 
The problem is that it will *NOT* boot from the disk. I have booted 
several times from the network trying to manually install bootblocks 
using "disklabel -B sd1", "disklabel -B /dev/rds1c -b sdboot" and some 
other such variations, but the system refuses to boot. The output from 
the console mode is:

 >>> boot dka100


-DKA100
 >>>


I have also tried installing onto a separate disk (dka0), with pretty 
much the same results, except that it at least tells me where it is 
failing on boot:

 >>> boot dka0


-DKA0


?43 FILESTRUCT
 >>>

I'm all out of ideas, other than running the system off NFS, but I would 
rather run it locally, since I have the diskspace to do so.

Any suggestions?

Thanks
-- 
Sean Cavanaugh - Email: seanc at unixgeeks period ca