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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.net.uk!btnet!matsu.nis.co.jp!ask.or.jp!news3-tokyonet!tokyonet.ad.jp!wincgw1!senri-nc!odins-suita!aist-nara!nisimura From: nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp (Toru Nishimura) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: NetBSD/pmax installation failed Date: 12 Aug 1996 04:20:33 GMT Organization: NARA Institute of Science and Technology Lines: 35 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4umbeh$8da@fse3.aist-nara.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: decpc59.aist-nara.ac.jp X-Newsreader: mnews [version 1.19PL2] 1996-01/26(Fri) I've tried to install NetBSD/pmax to Personal DecStation 5000 model 25 last Sunday and failed in vain. Somebody out there who succeeded in installing NetBSD/pmax on digital pmax product line, could you drop me "Hints and Tips for PMAX installation" ? I managed to create correct installation disk using Ultrix 4.4 after horrible struggles (I was so stupid enough to have created PMAX bootdisk with i386 PC. Don't do that....). When I tried resulting boot the disk, I got a message as follows; >>> boot 3/rz1/netbsd Boot: 3/rz1/netbsd open (3/rz1/netbsd) failed: 21 Can't boot '3/rz1/netbsd' Boot: message indicates PROM monitor successfully loaded NetBSD boot record, but the next line tells it was impossible to locate /netbsd binary on miniroot filesystem. The number 21 seems to mean 'EISDIR' but it doesn't make sense to me. I used NetBSD-1.1 release kit to create bootstrap disk, and also tried (pre?) 1.2 binary snapshot taken from ftp.dsg.standford.edu. Both made no difference. I tried two different types of HDs without any success. My procedure for boot disk was; [1] disklabel -R -r -B -b rzboot -s bootrz rz1 TARGET_LABEL dd if=miniroot of=/dev/rrz1c seek=16 or [2] cat rzboot bootrz miniroot >/dev/rrz1c disklabel -R -r -B -b rzboot -s bootrz rz1 TARGET_LABEL Any suggestion? Tohru NISHIMURA Nara Institute of Science and Technology