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