Subject: Re: install questions
To: Adam Fritzler <afritz@iname.com>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/18/1998 12:53:51
>
> Here's a few questions on booting that I haven't seen answers for...
>
> I netbooted by VS3100 and got it's local drive paritioned and formatted
> and put a full dist along with the same kernel I used for netbooting on
> it. I did a 'disklabel -B sd0' (also tried `disklabel -B /dev/rsd0c`) to
> write bootblocks. Now, if I do a 'boot dka0' (dka 0 being my install
> drive), it says:
>
> -DKA0
> howto 0x1, bdev 0x2a, booting...Boot failed, saerrorno 2
>
(The same question was asked a week ago, I think).
This means that there is no boot program in the root directory of the
first partition of the disk; the second stage boot loader. You managed
to write the boot blocks correctly.
-- Ragge