Just on principle I've put this information, plus the location
	of the autoboot images, onto an FAQ webpage under NetBSD/pc532...
	In case someone somewhere finds another pc532 in an attic :)

	It should show up in an hour or so.

	If anyone has any other suggestions for the FAQ, let us know! :)

		David/absolute

	 -=-  "That which does not kill us, makes us stranger"  -=-

On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Phil Nelson wrote:

> 
> >I have an pc532, tht's running minix (last i fired it up) :-)
> 
> Wow! A pc532 not running NetBSD :)
> 
> >Is the some way that i can buy the newer rom so i can run NetBSD ?
> 
> Which ROM do you have?  If you have the auto-boot ROM from around 1991,
> you have the most current of which I know.  But even if you don't,
> you can run NetBSD.   It will just take a little more effort to get
> it booted.  You will have to find the right place on the disk where
> the boot program lives and give the proper "read ..." command and
> then execute the boot program.  That shouldn't be hard to do.
> 
> Get the INSTALL document from the 1.4_ALPHA or 1.4_BETA directories
> (BETA if it is there) and try to follow the install procedure.
> Then, before you reboot, you need to get the boot information
> if you don't have the auto-boot ROM.  (If you do have it, you don't
> need the next information.)
> 
> run bim
> 
> You will get something like:
> 
> ---->/usr/src/HOME/phil
> steelhead[1]# bim
> 
> Disk: disk 1   Type: SCSI
> Physical Sector Size = 512
> Disk Size = 1173930
>  partition         type  sector start  length in sectors
>      a          4.2BSD         23980             383680
>      b            swap          2180              21800
>      c         unknown             0            1173930
>      d            boot             2               2178
>      e          4.2BSD        451260             722670
>      f            swap        407660              43600
> 
> Boot partition = d
> Default boot image  = 0
> Boot Images: total of 8
>   (image address and size in sectors.)
> Image  address   size  load addr  run addr   name
>     0        0     32   0x3e6800  0x3e6820   /usr/mdec/boot
>     1       32     64   0x3bf000  0x3bf020   /usr/mdec/boot
> 
> 
> From this you can easily calculate the disk address of the boot
> program and where to load it and run it.  So for the above stuff,
> the boot partition starts at sector 2.  The boot image is at
> offset 0 in the boot partition.  So the boot program is at
> sector 2 and is 32 sectors long.  You need to load it at
> address 0x3e6800 and run at 0x3e6820.  Write that information down
> for your system and you can then give the proper ROM monitor commands
> to load the boot program and run it.  All the autoboot monitor does
> is to read that information from the disklabel and the boot images 
> table on the first two sectors of the disk.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> -- 
> Phil Nelson                    NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org
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