Subject: Re: NetBSD hp300 ver 1.0
To: Wes Brown <wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 11/07/1996 09:48:15
On Wed, 6 Nov 1996 15:21:03 -0500 (EST)
Wes Brown <wes@prozac.student.cwru.edu> wrote:
> Alright. I have finally gotten the disklabel to work correctly. My best
> advice to anyone would be to go into SAM under HP-UX and "Add a Drive". It
> will give you an option to initialize the media. After that, the disklabel
> process went fine.
Hmm ... mediainit... I'll have to take a look at possibly "simulating"
that ...
> The problem that I am now having is that my arps are not being answered. I
> solved this problem by using the install technique from 1.0. Since I have
> a number 7958B drives, I just used the label file that was provided. The
> rootimage.gz has been loaded on the disk. Now when I try to boot that
> drive/filesystem I receive an error stating "SYSTEM WOULD LOAD TOO HIGH"
> just above the "Reset to PowerUp" line at the bottom of the boot up screen.
did you put a boot program on there, too, or just the root image? That
old root image doesn't have a boot program in it. You have to put
that on the disk separately. Sounds like you didn't use the `makedisk'
program that 1.0 shipped with.
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