Hi Stephen,

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> Once again tried it both on an NC and an A7000 (12MB).

Were these tried with the newest A7000 kernel suplied together with the
newest version of the bootloader ? There are significant modifications;
The A7000 kernel is just a recompiled A7000 kernel configuration ... The
RiscPC one is my own config file.

In my logs i can see that you only downloaded the BtNetBSD file and not
the corresponding kernel ... please do so... it changed too...

> On the A7000 with the A7000 kernel, it manages to get into kernel, but the
> kernel panics with "Video DRAM is being unpredictable". 

Oh thats wierd... hmm... i've seen it mentioned in the kernel but i'll
have a look at it ... wierd though... Might well be connected to using the
older kernel ... if you dont have VRAM it modifies the DRAM reported.

> On the NC it doesn't get that far. The error "No DRAM maped in this
> program (wierd) (sic) ... Increase Wimpslot?". Tried increasing the
> Wimpslot as high as 8MB; still no joy.
> 
> Reported messages:
> 
> Used 1st Mb of DRAM at 0x10000000 for video memory
> Found DRAM (0) at 0x10100000 for     15360 k
> Found DRAM (1) at 0x14000000 for     16384 k
> Found VRAM (0) at 0x00000000 for         0 k
> 
> Found memory blocks 0x100AD000-0x100F3000  0x100FB000-0x1073F000

This is on the NC ? it seems to have a 32 Mb SIMM ... hmm ... there is
huge block with phys. adres > 0x10100000 (0x10100000-0x1073F000) ... this
can only be when the number of pages reported isnt correct but it does
print the range over its treshold !!! so i guess this is the A7000 output
?

And did you also run the FastBoot file ? or the !BtNetBSD application ?
(parameters)

> Also, !Boot still refers to BtRiscBSD$Dir and the *RMKill UnixFS line
> should be wrapped in SYS "XOS_ClI" in case UnixFS is not being used.

Oeps !! hehe... minor mistakes ... thanks a lot for mentioning :)) ...  
fixed it...

Cheers,
Reinoud