As Chris G. Demetriou wrote...

> > But the showstopper proved to be quite nasty: it is SRM version related.
> > I downgraded my Jensen using a very old (V2.9 / August 1994) firmware CD.
> > DEC-internal info showed that more people had struggled and apparantly
> > succeeded using older firmware. The bootp server stuff was OK to start with.
> 
> Yuck.  The failure you were seeing was:
> 
> > >>> boot ez0a
> > INIT-S-CPU...
> > AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... 
> >
> >   84 FAIL
> >
> > >>>
> 
> How long between the AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS and the FAIL?

About the blink of an eye.. :-(

> If it's not too much trouble to get you to change your firmware a
> couple more times, could you tcpdump that boot sequence with "tcpdump
> -vv"?

I'll do that and post the results in a seperate mail to the list.

> > Before I had ROM version 2.2 which is the latest and greatest for
> > Jensen.
> 
> Do you know what firmware CD that came from?  I forget where it

FW CD V3.9 It is most likely also on V3.8 because the little CD booklet
tells me that the Jensen stuff was unchanged from the previous FW CD.

For now I tried a V1.2 netbsd network boot (guaranteed to fail on Jensen,
I know...) and I get:

>>> b ez0a
INIT-S-CPU...
AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... 
AUDIT_BOOT_REQ 
AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND IP 192.168.200.1
AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND ENET 00-00-F8-20-7F-45
AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS

AUDIT_LOAD_DONE

NetBSD/Alpha boot, Revision $NetBSD: version,v 1.5 1996/05/09 23:54:18 cgd
Exp $
(cgd@bunnahabhain.pdl.cs.cmu.edu, Fri Sep 13 16:10:36 EDT 1996)

VMS PAL revision: 0x100010530
OSF PAL rev: 0x20123
Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.

boot_dev = "BOOTP 1 5 0 0 0 2 JENS-IO"
boot_file = ""
boot_flags = "I"
boot_console = "0"
Boot: /netbsd I
1420032+137984+118752
calling fffffc0000230000 with 1e7, 80, 4, 200266c0, 0
panic: Support for DEC 2000/300 ("Jensen") system type not in kernel.
halted.


?05 HLT INSTR
  PC= FFFFFC00.00230190 PSL= 00000000.00000006

>>>


Looks promising.. This is using isc-dhcpd running on a 2.2.1-FreeBSD server.

Wilko
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