Subject: Can't NetBoot MV3100m20
To: port-vax@NetBSD.ORG <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Þorður Ivarsson <totii@est.is>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/10/1998 20:49:27
Hi

I was wondering if you could help me out? I have MicroVAX3100m20 and I
am trying to get NetBSD running on it. I was told that m20 is just
slower CPU than m30/40 so it should boot like m30 model. But it does not
work, the netbooting does work how ever but it stops when kernel has
been loaded.

Well, I run FreeBSD on 166mhz pentium and did all the things menioned in 
http://www.carpediem.com/~brianc/projects/vaxen/VAXstation-netboot-HOWTO.html

This is what is shown on console:


KA41-D  V1.0          ca`

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


 ?  E  0040  0000.0005
 ?  C  0080  0000.4001




 VMS/VMB  ULTRIX    ADDR    DEVTYP  NUMBYTES  RM/FX  WP  DEVNAM  REV
 -------  ------  --------  ------  --------  -----  --  ------  ---
 ESA0     SE0     08-00-2B-25-2E-1A

 DKA300   RZ3     A/3/0/00  DISK      209 MB   FX        RZ24   211B
 MKA500   TZ5     A/5/0/00  TAPE    ........   RM        
 ...HostID....    A/7       INITR

 ...HostID....    B/7       INITR


 [ESA0:]  ?>>>  


 83 BOOT SYS
-ESA0
Nboot
: /netbsd
le_softc.sc_r2 = 0x3a0000
device: le0 attached to 08:00:2b:25:2e:1a
boot: client IP address: 192.168.255.3
boot: client name: vax
root addr=192.168.255.1 path=/home/netbsd-vax
683008+35840+70760 start 0x9a1fc

It stops at this point but after this it does request the swap file and
xperfmon shows short activity on nfs.

This is from bootparamd:

whoami got question for 192.168.255.3
bootparamd: this is host vax
Returning vax       192.168.255.1
bootparamd: getfile got question for "vax" and file "root"
returning server:didda.est.is path:/home/netbsd-vax address:
192.168.255.1
whoami got question for 192.168.255.3
bootparamd: this is host vax
Returning vax       192.168.255.1
bootparamd: getfile got question for "vax" and file "root"
returning server:didda.est.is path:/home/netbsd-vax address:
192.168.255.1
bootparamd: getfile got question for "vax" and file "swap"
returning server:didda.est.is path:/home/netbsd-vax/swap.file address:
192.168.255.1

After that I am only able to ping the host!

I removed memory card from the machine to work around bootproblem with
more than 16MB memory, and I have also tried to remove any removeable
add-on cards but no good yet.
-- 
Þórður Ívarsson		Thordur Ivarsson
Rafeindavirki		Electronic technician
Norðurgötu 30		Nordurgotu 30
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