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From: rjadams@prin.uncg.edu (Robert Adams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Trying to boot sun 3/50 off of a solaris box
Date: 29 May 1996 06:34:19 GMT
Organization: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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Robert Adams (rjadams@prin.uncg.edu) wrote:
: Here is what I am trying to do:
: I wish to boot a diskless sun 3/50 (netbsd 1.1) off of a solaris 2.5 box
: This doesnt seem to be working..

okay, due to a kindly suggestion from Andrew Gillham, i got lots further..
I got the bootloader from sunos 4.1.1 (from the xkernel distributions)
now NetBSD boots!
 
almost.. (it gets as far as:)

root on 192.168.1.1:/export/morden/root
swap on 192.168.1.1:/export/morden/swap
exec /sbin/init: error 13
init: not found
panic no init


(in case it matters, I'm using the netbsd generic kernel, from netbsd 1.1)
yes, all the standard checks apply, there is an /export/morden/root/sbin/init
and it is set executable. 

any ideas anyone?  I may have a corrupted copy, so im gonna  re FTP it tonight,
but i think its eomthing else..  the root filesyss -IS- supposed to be 
a directory structure, and not some silly file on the server machine like
miniroot is.. i woudl =not= think so, but stranger things have happened..

as always.. any help appriciated..

Robert
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Robert Adams
Robert_Adams@uncg.edu