Subject: Re: Problems with 1.3alpha
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: emanuel stiebler <emu@ecubics.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/14/1997 10:00:12
Hi all,

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> From: Jonathan Stone 
> 
> >On this machine, was no way to boot with bootp.
> >        (buggy EPROM ?)
> >        all i got was 
> >
> >        1032640?IO: 3/tftp, aout err (-5)
> 
> This looks pretty bad.  If you didn't see a spinning-propeller, it
> looks like the PROM is giving up on the kernel before it's even read
> any of the kerel text.  I don't recall seeing this PROM version in
> Simon Burge's list, either.
> 
> Could you please try the cut-down nfsinstall kernel and see 
> if that boots more successfully?

i try this probably on weekend


> 
> >what I've done to get netbsd1.3alpha running (walking?)
> 
> >1. got the diskimage via FTP (today, 13.Nov), diskdumped it on the rz1.
> >
> >2. boot of rz1.
> >   set TERM to pmax 
> >   try "sysinst -r "" ". I got only a Segmentation fault.
> 
> Eek. that is a bug. Did you do
> 	TERM=pmax; export TERM
> 
> and were you running on a framebuffer console, or a serial console?
> If you're using a serial console, you need to do
> 
> 	TERM=vt100; export TERM
> 
> or
> 	TERM=xterm; export TERM

i'v done a TERM=pmax ; export TERM
sitting on framebuffer console


thanks,
emanuel