On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, ville hautakangas wrote:

> hello,
> 
> It's been a while since I got NetBSD up and running on my
> lousy little VAXstation 3100m30. Lousy and little, at least
> since I got my hands on a VAX 4000m200 with a TU81-plus 
> 9-track :)
> 
> So now I have some questions..
> 
> SHOULD I be able to netboot the beast? The old boot.mop
> I had didn't work, but launched the system tests (and fscked
> them up somehow). So I got a new bootloader, but this one
> doesn't seem to understand bootparams (it always gets the
> address 0.0.0.0 for root). On the VAXstations at least
> it sometimes worked... is the problem more likely with 
> my bootserver setup? I wouldn't care about setting up
> dhcp servers or such, it'd very much suffice to get the
> machine to boot up just a couple of times so I could 
> get NetBSD onto the disk.

I was able to successfully boot my 4000m200 via a modified version of
1.4something which Michael Kukat provided to me.  AFAIK these changes have
been merged into 1.5, but don't quote me on that.  For me (with the mod's
Michael provided), it "just worked."  Stable, consistent.  Everything you
might expect from a vax (it even warmed my livingroom a bit ;-)  But
again, I haven't had time [cough] to try 1.5 or -current on it yet.

I don't remember what I had to use for the booting process.  I remember
using mopd (of course), but I can't remember whether it's a bootparam,
etc... kernel.  Michael Kukat will most likely be able to provide
specifics on this...

Does anyone know if the 4000m200 changes have been merged into the cvs
trunk yet?

> And yeah, I have an SQ706A scsi/mscp disk controller. I 
> remember somebody on this list had problems with one of
> these, I just might be able to help. I only got the contr.
> and the disks to appear in SHO DEV after I reset the controller
> address. 

-Jon
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