Re: Yes, NetBSD still boots on pretty ancient Alphas...

[Istvan Gyenes <igyenes%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 7/25/2021 9:39 PM, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> [ 6.7016639] root on md0a dumps on md0b
> > [   6.7465883] root file system type: ffs
> > [   6.7905274] kern.module.path=/stand/alpha/9.99.87/modules
> But I'm super excited about this ^^^ !
>
> > Have to tried to istall but will do hopefully tomorrow!
> Looking forward to your report!
>
> -- thorpej

Installed, and booted to multi-user. I think I have to dig up some old 
ISA network card to try to get ethernet working. :)

--

istvan


Alpha AXP System - ROM Version 2.2
Copyright (c) 1993 Digital Equipment Corporation.

Alpha AXP SRM Firmware Version - 370
System conducting power up tests
------------------------------------------------------------

Devnam            Devstat
--------          -------
     CPU          OK EV4 P3.0 6.6ns
     MEM          OK 64MB
     NVR          OK
     SCC          OK
      IT          OK
     KBD          OK
     LPT          OK
     VGA          OK
    SCSI          OK
      NI          OK 08-00-2B-3D-48-F1      DE422
    SCSI          OK
------------------------------------------------------------
System power up OK.

  83 BOOT SYS
INIT-S-CPU...

?40 NOSUCHDEV
  84 FAIL

>>> b dkb200 -fl A
INIT-S-CPU...
AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ...
AUDIT_CHECKSUM_GOOD
AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS
AUDIT_LOAD_DONE


NetBSD/alpha 9.99.87 FFS Primary Bootstrap
Jumping to entry point...

NetBSD/alpha 9.99.87 Secondary Bootstrap, Revision 1.13 (Sun Jul 25 
17:14:45 UTC 2021)

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

Boot flags: A
13168880+233904 [645336+419176]=0xdcc848

Entering netbsd at 0xfffffc0000a014b0...
[   1.0000000] consinit: not using prom console
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 
2003, 2004, 2005,
[   1.0000000]     2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 
2015, 2016, 2017,
[   1.0000000]     2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  
All rights reserved.
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
[   1.0000000]     The Regents of the University of California. All 
rights reserved.

[   1.0000000] NetBSD 9.99.87 (GENERIC-$Revision: 1.413 $) #1: Sun Jul 
25 19:29:26 CEST 2021
[   1.0000000] 
igyenes@thinkpad:/mnt/netbsd/alphaobj/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC
[   1.0000000] DEC2000 model 300, 150MHz, s/n
[   1.0000000] 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
[   1.0000000] total memory = 65536 KB
[   1.0000000] (2048 KB reserved for PROM, 63488 KB used by NetBSD)
[   1.0000000] avail memory = 48272 KB
[   1.0000000] mainbus0 (root)
[   1.0000000] cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21064-0 (EV4)
[   1.0000000] jensenio0 at mainbus0
[   1.0000000] pckbc0 at jensenio0 port 0x60
[   1.0000000] com0 at jensenio0 port 0x3f8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
[   1.0000000] com0: console
[   1.0000000] com0: interrupting at vector 0x900
[   1.0000000] com1 at jensenio0 port 0x2f8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
[   1.0000000] com1: interrupting at vector 0x920
[   1.0000000] lpt0 at jensenio0 port 0x3bc
[   1.0000000] lpt0: interrupting at eisa irq 1
[   1.0000000] mcclock0 at jensenio0 port 0x170: mc146818 compatible 
time-of-day clock
[   1.0000000] eisa0 at jensenio0
[   1.0000000] Compaq QVision 1024/E Graphics Controller at eisa0 slot 1 
not configured
[   1.0000000] ahb0 at eisa0 slot 3: Adaptec AHA-1740A SCSI
[   1.0000000] ahb0: interrupting at eisa irq 12 (edge trigger)
[   1.0000000] scsibus0 at ahb0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
[   1.0000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 4: DEC DE422 Ethernet
[   1.0000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xd0000-0xdffff
[   1.0000000] le0 at depca2
[   1.0000000] le0: failed to clear memory at 0 (0xff != 0xaa)
[   1.0000000] ahb1 at eisa0 slot 6: Adaptec AHA-1742A SCSI
[   1.0000000] ahb1: interrupting at eisa irq 14 (edge trigger)
[   1.0000000] scsibus1 at ahb1: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
[   1.0000000] isa0 at jensenio0
[   1.0000000] attimer0 at isa0 port 0x40-0x43
[   1.0000000] vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff
[   1.0000000] wsdisplay1 at vga0 kbdmux 1
[   1.0000000] pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
[   1.0000000] spkr0 at pcppi0: PC Speaker
[   1.0000000] wsbell at spkr0 not configured
[   1.0000000] midi0 at pcppi0: PC speaker
[   1.0000000] isabeep0 at pcppi0
[   1.0000000] fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
[   1.0000000] attimer0: attached to pcppi0
[   1.0000000] entropy: WARNING: extracting entropy too early
[   1.0058129] scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
[   1.0764617] scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
[   3.4003138] fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
[   4.9149704] sd0 at scsibus1 target 0 lun 0: <DEC, RZ28 (C) DEC, D41C> 
disk fixed
[   5.0096787] sd0(ahb1:0:0:0):  Check Condition on CDB: 0x00 00 00 00 00 00
[   5.0892841]     SENSE KEY:  Not Ready
[   5.1309453]      ASC/ASCQ:  Logical Unit Not Ready, Initializing 
Command Required
[   5.2225874] sd0: drive offline
[   5.2733703] sd1 at scsibus1 target 1 lun 0: <DEC, RZ28 (C) DEC, 441C> 
disk fixed
[   5.3720036] sd1: 2007 MB, 3045 cyl, 16 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 
4110480 sectors
[   5.4774708] sd2 at scsibus1 target 2 lun 0: <DEC, RZ28M (C) DEC, 
0568> disk fixed
[   5.5780395] sd2: 2007 MB, 3045 cyl, 16 head, 84 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 
4110480 sectors
[   5.9364516] cd0 at scsibus1 target 4 lun 0: <DEC, RRD46 (C) DEC, 
1337> cdrom removable
[  16.1572041] sd0: no disk label
[  16.1952814] sd0: no disk label
[  16.2626555] sd1: 144 trailing sectors not covered by disklabel
[  16.3349302] sd1: 144 trailing sectors not covered by disklabel
[  16.4384556] WARNING: 2 errors while detecting hardware; check system log.
[  16.5351315] root on sd2a dumps on sd2b
[  16.6532979] root file system type: ffs
[  16.7001572] kern.module.path=/stand/alpha/9.99.87/modules
[  16.7636752] WARNING: preposterous TOD clock time
[  16.8188669] WARNING: using filesystem time
[  16.8678313] WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
Sun Jul 25 20:16:22 CEST 2021
Starting root file system check:
/dev/rsd2a: file system is clean; not checking
Setting sysctl variables:
ddb.onpanic: 1 -> 0
[  25.7636735] cd0: no disk label
swapctl: setting dump device to /dev/sd2b
swapctl: adding /dev/sd2b as swap device at priority 0
Starting file system checks:
rndctl: no entropy in seed
Setting tty flags.
Starting network.
/etc/rc: WARNING: $hostname not set.
IPv6 mode: host
Configuring network interfaces:.
Adding interface aliases:.
Waiting for duplicate address detection to finish...
Building databases: dev, utmp, utmpx.
Starting syslogd.
Mounting all file systems...
Clearing temporary files.
Checking quotas: done.
Setting securelevel: kern.securelevel: 0 -> 1
[  48.0254852] cd0: no disk label
swapctl: setting dump device to /dev/sd2b
Starting virecover.
Checking for core dump...
savecore: no core dump
Starting local daemons:.
Updating motd.
Starting sshd.
/usr/sbin/postconf: warning: valid_hostname: empty hostname
/usr/sbin/postconf: fatal: unable to use my own hostname
Starting postfix.
Jul 25 20:17:15  postfix[701]: fatal: unable to use my own hostname
/etc/rc.d/postfix exited with code 1
Starting inetd.
Starting cron.
The following components reported failures:
    /etc/rc.d/postfix
See /var/run/rc.log for more information.
Sun Jul 25 20:17:18 CEST 2021

NetBSD/alpha (Amnesiac) (constty)

login: root
Jul 25 20:17:30  login: ROOT LOGIN (root) on tty constty
Last login: Sun Jul 25 20:14:36 2021 on constty
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
    2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
    2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights 
reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 9.99.87 (GENERIC-$Revision: 1.413 $) #1: Sun Jul 25 19:29:26 CEST 
2021

Welcome to NetBSD!

This is a development snapshot of NetBSD for testing -- user beware!

Bug reports: https://www.NetBSD.org/support/send-pr.html
Donations to the NetBSD Foundation: https://www.NetBSD.org/donations/
We recommend that you create a non-root account and use su(1) for root 
access.
# df
Filesystem      1K-blocks         Used        Avail %Cap Mounted on
/dev/sd2a         1765006       813978       862778  48% /
kernfs                  1            1            0 100% /kern
ptyfs                   1            1            0 100% /dev/pts
procfs                  8            8            0 100% /proc
tmpfs               15872            8        15864   0% /var/shm
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