Hi Michael,
 I have managed to hand over operations of the hp300 to a fellow hacker and
she has had some time to help me with this.

Now the kernel boots, however, after the kernel starts (does its loading and
/-|\ spinning) and then
start @ 0xfeoo34oo [1=0xfe259c30-02c003c]
entry point: 0xfe003400

And here it either hangs, or reboots (no further messages) . We have tried
kernels from the 11th, 12th and the 17th. Same results.
This is a "HP 9000/425 (25MHz MC68040 CPU+MMU+FPU, 4k on-chip physical I/D
caches)"

I believe it is a 425t, and I am using the HIL keyboard/mouse and screen
that works correctly with 1.5 (which is what the machine normally runs)

Thanks

Chris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Wolfson" <michael@nosflow.com>
To: "Chris Rupnik" <crupnik@videotron.ca>
Cc: <port-hp300@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2002 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: Problem booting miniroot 1.6B


> At 12:54 PM -0400 7/12/02, Chris Rupnik wrote:
>
> :)"inappropriate file type".
> :)
> :)If I tried booting a file that I knew did not exist, (for instance,
coco), I
> :)got an file not found . So this means it finds the file, just does not
know
> :)what to do with it.
> :)
> :)note: These messages appear to come from the second stage bootloader,
from
> :)the current 1.5 installed on the box. Would it be accurate that this
will
> :)also have to be upgraded to a 1.6 version?
>
> AFAIK, no.  1.6 has an ELF kernel and the 1.5 branch still used a.out
> kernels.  The INSTALL notes section on manual upgrading has already been
> upgraded to include this step:
>
> 2.  Boot your hp300 into `single-user mode':
>
> Follow the instructions in the section above on Chosing a kernel location
> and type -s at the prompt.
>
> 3.  Extract and install a new boot block:
>
> Make sure you install the bootstrap program distributed with this version
> of NetBSD/hp300.
>
>
> # tar -xpvzf base.tgz ./usr/mdec
> # disklabel -B -b ./usr/mdec/uboot.lif  root-disk
>
> E.g.: root-disk could be sd0 or rd0. We'll assume rd0 for now.
>
> Have fun,
>   -- MW
>
>