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From: d93jha@Zeke.Update.UU.SE (Jonas Hagelin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: DECstation fail to boot
Date: 15 Apr 1997 12:27:51 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
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Hope none of these questions is in a FAQ somewhere.
I am trying to boot netbsd on my Digital Personal DECstation 5000/20.
Sometimes I get the problem:
?IO: 3/tftp, a.out err (-5)
I know this has nothing to do with netbsd but does anyone know what is causing
this?
About netbsd.
My decstation is diskless so I am trying to boot via nfs.
I am using kernel nfsnetbsd.ecoff and it stops after written out:
(something like)
root on foo.bar:/root/some/where
swap on foo.bar:/swap/some/where
root is the root directory.
swap is a file of 32Mb size created on SunOS using 'mkfile'
I guess it should do some sort of initialization on the swap, but I has been
that way for about 30 minutes (which is the longest time I have been waiting).
Is it too little info. Let me know.
Any help is appreciated. Via email or news.
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