Chris:
There has been some recent discussion regarding this problem.
Bernd Sieker and I had suffered the same problem (on his
433 and on my 425t).  It has something to do with a bug
that affects Topcat framebuffer: the computer cannot
output to the console after that entry point.

Turns out that your computer probably is completing the
boot process.  Problem, you would have to have a
serial port console set up to see it.

I'm hoping that there will be some work done on the
console code so that this bug will be removed.
I'm pretty sure that this is your problem, because
I too had no problem with 1.5

On the bright side, I was able to install the
1.6Beta snapshot using a serial console.

There is pretty good documentation for setting
up the serial console if you decide to go that route.

-Sageev

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Chris Rupnik wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
>
>