Subject: more observations on netboot
To: port-alpha list NetBSD <port-alpha@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 11/05/1997 21:34:24
Hi

Having just gone back to my Jensen ROM rev 1.4 I've noticed
that a BOOT EZ0 only works *after* the system has at least once
done a netbsd boot from disk. 

So without any previous disk boot I get (reproducible):

>>> b ez0
INIT-S-CPU...
AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... 
AUDIT_BOOT_REQ 
AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND IP 192.168.200.1
AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND ENET 00-00-F8-20-7F-45
AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS

AUDIT_LOAD_DONE


?05 HLT INSTR
  PC= 00000000.20021F90 PSL= 00000000.00001F00

>>>

With a disk boot in between I get:

NIT-S-CPU...
AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... 
AUDIT_BOOT_REQ 
AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND IP 192.168.200.1
AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND ENET 00-00-F8-20-7F-45
AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS

AUDIT_LOAD_DONE

NetBSD/Alpha boot, Revision $NetBSD: version,v 1.5 1996/05/09 23:54:18 cgd
Exp $
(cgd@bunnahabhain.pdl.cs.cmu.edu, Fri Sep 13 16:10:36 EDT 1996)

VMS PAL revision: 0x100010530
OSF PAL rev: 0x20123
Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.

boot_dev = "BOOTP 1 5 0 0 0 2 JENS-IO"
boot_file = ""
boot_flags = "I"
boot_console = "0"
Boot: /netbsd I
1420032+137984+118752
calling fffffc0000230000 with 1e7, 80, 4, 200266c0, 0
panic: Support for DEC 2000/300 ("Jensen") system type not in kernel.
halted.


?05 HLT INSTR
  PC= FFFFFC00.00230190 PSL= 00000000.00000006

It sort of appears that some part of memory is not initialised before use
or so??

Please note that this is all based on 1.2 bootblocks, maybe I should get the
1.3 bootblocks, assuming they'll coexist with 1.2 for the rest of the
system. Are they around somewhere in a managable chunk (28K8 modem is
not very suitable to download a complete snapshot)

Wilko
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