Re: Installing bootblocks on 3.2 snapshot

On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 11:43:46PM -0600, Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
> 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:
> 
The method sounds correct..

Try the (known working) bootblocks from: http://209.53.9.99/vax/seanc/

Anything special about the drives?

It may be worth testing if boot.mop (once loaded over the network) is
able to load a kernel off the drive. At the console chevron enter
"boot esa0", and then at the openbsd boot prompt try "boot sd(0)bsd",
or "boot sd(1,0)bsd". This is a longshot, and I'm not sure if it ever
worked reliably with scsi, so a negative result won't tell much.

IIRC your system did run OpenBSD at one point. Does the release it
previously ran still work? The boot code was changed substantially
between 3.1 and 3.2, although it was tested working fine on systems
similar to the mv3100m80.

/Hugh