Subject: Re: booting a 4/330
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: System Admin <root@inner.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/03/1996 14:54:02
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> 
> As far as I can tell, when support for the 4/{1,2,3}00 was added, the 
> dependency on open-mode went away.  You can certainly boot a sun4 from 
> the old monitor (I boot my 4/260 from it all the time :-), and I think I 
> even tried booting an ss1 from the old-style command prompt and succeeded 
> ... been a while; I could be mistaken.


I have a sun4/260 here, no matter what I do I can't get it to boot 
netbsd. It's currently running Sunos 4.1.3 from a netboot installation. 
Jason is there some special kernel you have in order to get it to boot? 
Which netbsd installation should I try? I'd really like to get it working..

Thanks,
Eric