Problems in bringing up 4.2 (help!)

[barad at brand.UUCP]

Help!  We are having trouble bringing up 4.2BSD.  I have talked to
several people and nobody knows what our problems are.  We have a vax
750 with about 2Megs of memory.  We have the following controller and disks:

SI 9900 Controller
SI 9762 (RM03) - (33 sectors/track) - SI format
SI 9766 (RM05) - (32 sectors/track) - SI format

Note that the 33 sectors/track is non-standard, but I tried bringing
up the system again after I reformatted the pack at 32 sectors/track
and changing the proper switches on the drive and the very same
problem happened.

Here is what happens:

I format the disk pack on another machine (running VMS).  I can copy
the mini-root to hp(0,1) (as in the Berkeley instructions).  Now I try
to boot from the mini-root

:hp(0,1)vmunix

it starts to boot (fine) and then asks

boot device?

I then type in hp0* and it then bombs with

80022FCF	06

Our facility manager brought 4.1 back up and made a file system on the
disk thinking that this might help.  It didn't.

			Any ideas?

NOTE: Please respond by mail - I do not always read this newsgroup.

					Thanks in advance,



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