Subject: Re: Sparc1 Boot Question
To: Andrew S. Clapp <clapp@peak.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/21/1999 14:19:20
Could you try booting netbsd.GENERIC when it asks
boot (press RETURN to try default list):
David/absolute
"Its just another ultimate battle of good against evil..."
On Fri, 21 May 1999, Andrew S. Clapp wrote:
> I have successfully(?) installed netbsd 1.4 on a sun sparc one.
> Just at the end of the install process, the program complains that
> the disk fails the sanity check. Then, when I try to boot from
> sd(0,0,0)netbsd (without floppy) it gives the following error:
>
> Testing
> Booting from: sd(0,0,0)netbsd
> >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.8
> >> (pk@flambard, Sat May 8 21:54:06 MEST 1999)
> open: netbsd: No such file or directory
> device[sd(0,0,0)netbsd] ("halt" to halt): (I press return here)
> boot (press RETURN to try default list): (return again and it go thru the list)
> open: netbsd: No such .... : trhying netbsd.gz...
> open: netbsd.gz: ...
> open: netbsd.old: ...
> .
> .
> .
> device[sd(0,0,0)netbsd] ("halt" to halt):
>
> The syboot.fs disk is the only one that seemed to do the right thing
> for the install. There are two scsi drives. They are IBM S4F's.
> Is this a boot block/disklabel thing? I can use the floppy to mount up
> the disks and all the files are there and extracted.
>
> Thanks muchly.
>
> -ASC
>
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