[SunHELP] having trouble installing netBSD on sun 4/470

[Hatle, Steven J.]

 Michael,

You might need to experiment with the partition number you are booting from
on the CD. 

sd(0,30,1) will try partition 1, sd(0,30,2) will be partition 2, etc.
Without knowing which partition (might) be bootable, you'll have to play
around. This is all based on the fact that your CD-ROM is at SCSI ID 6; if
it's not, the '30' in the number above will be different as well.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Free
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Sent: 3/12/01 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] having trouble installing netBSD on sun 4/470

Has anyone got any insight on this problem? I really can't get this
machine going unless i can solve this problem. Is there a resource or
tutorial that can help me figure out the old PROM monitor by myself
even?

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Free < mfree at planetc.com <mailto:mfree at planetc.com> >
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org <mailto:sunhelp at sunhelp.org>  <
sunhelp at sunhelp.org <mailto:sunhelp at sunhelp.org> >
Date: Sunday, March 11, 2001 12:46 PM
Subject: [SunHELP] having trouble installing netBSD on sun 4/470


Hello,
    I just recently acquired a Sun 4/470 system  without an OS, and I
was trying to install netBSD 1.5 from a multiboot CD and unfortunately
I'm having no luck. The CD-ROM drive is the original furnished Sony
drive, and I'm controlling through a terminal on ttya. 
 
    This machine is not equipped with openboot, so i'm installing from
sunmon. When I give the boot command for CD, something strange happens.
 
>b sd(,30,)
 
gives back the answer
 
Illegal Instruction error 0x000060C3 at 0x0000004000
 
and returns me to the boot prompt. Could the machine be trying to boot
the PC kernal, since the PC kernal is working on the disk? If so, is
there any way to give path information on the sunmon command line?
 
If not, is there anyone who could point me in the general direction of a
bootable ISO image, not a full install, but just enough to gain me
access to the rest of the CD? I'm limited to dialup access and a 650 meg
download is _just_ a little too much.
 
Thank you,
Mike Free
Mfree at planetc.com