Well, after searching through the mailing list archive I determined that
booting from tape wasn't the smartest thing that I could do so I decided to
try and setup a MOP server on my linux box.

The MicroVax is getting the bootstrap and its IP address from the
paramserver, etc. but during the kernel boot I get "Unknown Error Code 60",
then it tries to load netbsd, then netbsd.gz and so on before it gives up
with a >.

Does anyone know what that error means?  I did the gzip -dc
netbsd.GENERIC.gz > /export/vaxclient/root/netbsd from the kernel sub-dir,
and I tried the netbsd.ram.gz from the netboot directory.

Any help would be appreciated!

Norm

-----Original Message-----
From: Norm Dressler [mailto:ndressler@dinmar.com]
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 11:49 AM
To: port-vax@netbsd.org
Subject: Help with Boot Tape and Writing with VMS


Hi,

I have a MicroVax 3100-80 with a TZ30 tape and an extabyte 8mm tape.

I currently have VMS installed on the system and don't have access to
another tz30 on another OS.  It does not have a floppy.

I downloaded the boot.fs.gz file from the netBSD1.4.3 version because there
wasn't one in the installation directory for 1.5 on ftp.netbsd.org.  I
gunzipped it on a linux machine, ftp'd it to an alpha box running vms,
copied it over to my Microvax.

I then did this:

initialize dka500: ""
mount/foreign/block=512 dka500:
copy boot.fs dka500:
dismount/unload dka500:

All this worked great.  When I restarted the machine and did a boot dka500
from the console, the tape drive whirls for a while but it eventually comes
back with and endoffile error.

What did I do wrong?

Norm