> > I have Ragges 1.2C Snapshot from 2.Feb running on
> > a MVII. When booting, the kernel ask for a boot device
> > 
> > boot device:<unknown>
> > 
> > Is this just unconfigured or due to the fact that I have
> > root on ra1a, not on ra0a? (Due to unfixed bad blocks on
> > ra0...)?
> 
> Just to get the facts: 
> You are booting with the command ">>> b/3 dua1" ???
> Are you asked for R(!)oot or B(?)oot device?
> If you're asked for Root device, you should answer "ra1a".
> Have you tried that? What exactly happened?
>
Heres the output from dmesg:
NetBSD 1.2C (GENERIC) #19: Sun Feb  2 14:03:52 CET 1997
ragge@multivac:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC

realmem = 9436160
avail mem = 6440960
Using 460 buffers containing 471040 bytes of memory.
backplane0 (root)
cpu0 at backplane0: MicroVAX II
uba0 at backplane0: Q22
mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 17
mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 4 model 3
mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK50
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770 ipl 17
mscpbus1 at uda0: version 3 model 3
mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
ra0 at mscpbus1 drive 0: RD54
ra1 at mscpbus1 drive 1: RD54
qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 764 ipl 17
qe0: deqna, hardware address 08:00:2b:15:95:c4
dhu0 at uba0 csr 160440 vec 310 ipl 17
dhu0: rom(1) version 2 rom(0) version 2
boot device: <unknown>
root device: ra1a
swap device (default ra1b): 
file system (default generic): 
root on ra1a swap on ra1b
ra1: size 311355 sectors
root file system type: ffs

Im booting with
b dua1


> > On another subject:
> > 
> > My vaxstation2000 hangs just after booting miniroot.
> > After the copyright message everything stops.
> 
> No other symptoms? Are you put back to the ">>>" prompt?
> Can you get back to the ">>>" prompt by hitting the F5 key?
> Any other messages saying "PC=" and some numbers? 
> Or just nothing?

Here we are. After pressing break it reboots.


KA410-B V2.2           

F...E...D...C...B...A...9...8...7...6...5...4_..3_..2_..1...


 ?  C  0080  0000.4001
 ?  6  00A0  0000.4001


83 BOOT SYS
-DUA0

%VMB-F-ERR, PC = 00000765
%VMB-I-STS, R0 = 000008C2
84 FAIL
>>> b/3 dua2


-DUA2

howto 0x3, bdev 0x24, booting...
getdisklabel: no disk label
31276+1200+22236 start 0x0

Nboot
: mfm(0,1)/netbsd
using raw diskblock-data!
block 0, dblk -16 ==> cyl 0, head 0, sect 0
dumping raw disk-block #0:

...

label says: s/t/c = 17/6/820
671744+36864+73484 start 0x95790
p[0] = 0, p[1] = e8, p[2] = 9f, p[3] = 0, 
len = 11
srp = 0x9fe800
0:0x0 4:0x0 
le_iomem: 819a4000, le_ioaddr: 9e0000, srp: 9fe800, avail_end: 9e0000
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Sorry for the long mail.

Best greetings,


Simon.