Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>
>>  Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>>
>>  >On Tue, 29 Oct 2002, Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
>>  >
>>  >>  I did a clean install of 1.6 (kernel,base,etc sets), built the devs,
>>  >>  and tried to boot.
>>  >>  just after doing the floating point it types
>>  >>
>>  >>  adb0
>>  >>
>>  >>  and hangs. It has already done adb0 at obio0. It doesn't seem to
>>  >>  matter whether I use a serial console or not.
>>  >
>>  >When you use a serial console, does that mean the mouse and keyboard
>>  >are disconnected?
>>
>>  No, just that I specify it in the booter. The serial console works ok
>>  - all the boot stuff up to the line
>>
>>  adb0
>>
>>  gets put on the serial console, just as with 1.5.3
>
>Well, NetBSD may not like the hardware. See what happens with no
>keyboard or mouse attached.

It USED to like it! 1.4 and 1.5 worked ok, same hardware!

You are not supposed to hot-plug/unplug ADB stuff - makes it hard to 
boot unless I make the booter do it auto - I'll try that.

>  > >>  I am using a IIvx with 68 meg RAM and 2 gig disk divided into
>>  >>  root&usr, swap, & usr.
>>  >>  I am  using the SBC kernel, as that has always worked best before.
>>  >
>>  >Could you try with a custom kernel built for 68030, no FPSP?
>>
>>  Not until I get it to boot, which is the problem in the first place!
>>  No way to create a custom 030 kernel for 1.6
>
>You don't actually need to be running NetBSD 1.6 to build a 1.6
>kernel. The whole release is even reported to build under Cygwin. I am
>running 1.6 (i386) and I have the sources; I'll put a MacII kernel up
>later tonight for testing. I think it's failing too early in the boot
>to have anything to do with floating point, though. I'd guess, rather,
>NetBSD doesn't like something about the hardware.
>

It is failing AFTER it does the FPU test!

Dan Killoran