Re: Status of port-newsmips?

[Mauricio <raub%kudria.com@localhost>]

At 21:39 +0900 9/15/02, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <a05100300b9a8f32bcfc1@[10.0.0.10]>
> raub%kudria.com@localhost wrote:
>
> >  >Would you please try this image?
> >  >http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-1.6H.fs
> >  >The kernel in this image will call fb initialization only on NWS-3470D.
> >  >If this does not work, more work is needed..
>  :
> >  NEWS> bo fh
> >  NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
> >  NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
> >  (tsutsui@mirage, Sat Sep 14 18:20:02 JST 2002)
> >  Booting fh(0,0,0)
> >  3788720+128968=0x3bc914
> >
> >  Once again,t hat is as far as the machine went. =(
>
> Ugh.. then how about the next one?
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-1.6H2.fs
> All fb and kbd devices are disabled in this kernel.
>
> If it doesn't work either, please try this old image:
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-14L-nofb.fs.gz
> There was a report it booted on NWS-3720 about three years ago.
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
> tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost

        Hello there.

	I have not tried them yet since I am now having problems 
booting the machine to get to the NEWS> prompt.  I did try the 
routine to boot with dead NVRAM 
(http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/news68k/faq.html#dead_nvram) but no 
dice.  So, I decided to open the beast, taking pictures as I go just 
in case I want to write down a how-to.

What I found inside was 12 1MB SIMMs (and that the machine has some 
36 slots; I wonder if I can put one 4MB SIMM on each slot.  I did 
find what seemed to be a jumper to go from 1M and 4M =)... and dust, 
lots of it.  Just to make me feel good, I will probably clean the 
machine before trying again.  At least I now have lots of pictures, 
including of the NVRAM. =)