Hi Paul

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> From: Paul Apprich <psapp@terra.cnct.com>
> To: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
> Subject: Re: hdd booting 3100/M76/SPX
> Date: Friday, July 03, 1998 3:46 PM

> 3. Boot program loads and executes the kernel. This is where I get what
> I refer to as 'the c8's of death' which appears to be bad code in the
boot
> program, NOT the kernels. 

Like this ?


>>> b dka0


-DKA0
howto 0x0, bdev 0xa2, booting...done.

>> NetBSD/vax boot [980703 11:45] <<
: /netbsd
sdopen: ctlr=0 unit=0 part=0
sdstrategy(0,0): size=512 blk=0 nblk=1
scsi_tt_read: ctlr 0, slave 0, len 512, blk 0, nblk 1
sc_rdwt: op 3, block 0, ram 2084c0, len 1, sc_adr 1, lun 0
exec_scsi_low(0x20d6bc, 1)
sc_wait_bus_free()
sc_select(1)
sc_dma_setup(4, 2130848)
sc_receive()
begin: 48/48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48 
48  48
  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48 
48  48
  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48 
48  48
  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48 
48  48
  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48  48 
48  48
  48  48  48 timeout in sc_receive.

?02 EXT HLT
    PC = 00202B75



> I have been told that using 'rom()/netbsd' would
> stop that problem. I tried that, however the system balks at me by
> doing an automatic defalt boot, giving me the c8's of death.

Like this ?

>>> b/43 dka0


-DKA0
howto 0x34, bdev 0xa2, booting...done.

>> NetBSD/vax boot [980703 11:45] <<
: rom()/netbsd
736256+35840+145088[+56892+62378] start 0x8e0
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998
    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 1.3F (ECU) #0: Tue Jun 30 15:41:13 PDT 1998
    root@mike:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/ECU

VAXstation 3100/m76
realmem = 16510976
avail mem = 12083200
Using 806 buffers containing 825344 bytes of memory.
backplane0 (root)
cpu0 at backplane0: KA43
cpu0 at backplane0: KA43
secondary cache status: ffe1<TPE,DPE,MISS,ENABLE>
vsbus0 at backplane0
ln0 at vsbus0
ln0: address 08:00:2b:24:89:4a
dz0 at vsbus0: DC367
lkc0 at dz0
smg0 at vsbus0
wsdisplay0 at smg0
boot device: <unknown>
root device:
use one of: ln0 halt


cheers,
emanuel

P.S. Digging further ....