Jim MacKenzie wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Hawtin"
> <kim.hawtin@adelaide.edu.au>
> To: <port-vax@NetBSD.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 4:35 PM
> Subject: Re: NetBSD 3.0 install from CD issues
> 
> 
>> After a bit of mucking around I found that the microvax3100 just plain
>> doesn't like booting off anything over a 1GB disk.
>>
>> Is this a well know issue?
> 
> 
> I boot a VAXStation 4000/60 off a 4.3 gig drive, although the boot
> partition is only half a gigabyte.
> 
> I know the VAXStations have some specific issues about bigger drives but
> I don't know if it's a boot issue or a compatibility in general issue.
> 
> If you can't boot off the big disk, perhaps you can make a small /boot
> partition via nfs and boot over the network, mounting the balance of the
> system on local hard disks.  Alternatively, get a small SCSI hard disk
> (even a 50 or 100 megabyte drive would do) and add it in tandem with
> your bigger drive, and use that drive for booting.

I have put in a 300MB(ish) disk originally from the microvax3100.
I was keen to put in something larger and quieter ;) I'll put it in an
external DEC enclosure with a tape drive an see how it all goes.

But I still could not get 3.0 to install on any disk. 2.0.2 works fine
on the smaller disk...

regards,

Kim