Subject: None
To: 'Pmax' <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Armistead, Jason <ARMISTEJ@oeca.otis.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/18/1997 22:33:00
Hi
Since I have 4 dusty old DECstation 5000/125s lying around, I decided to
install NetBSD to see if that would give me some "lifetime" out of them.
So far, it isn't looking promising.
What I did to install:
===============
chpt-ed (change partition) the disk under Ultrix 4.3 as follows:
/dev/rrz3a
Current partition table:
partition bottom top size overlap
a 0 65535 65536 c
b 65536 98303 32768 c
c 0 204863 204864 a,b,d
d 98304 204863 106560 c
disklabel-ed the RZ23 disk (I know, only 104Mb, but it should do OK to
boot from in a minimal environment - right ?) as follows:
type: SCSI
disk: rz23
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 33
tracks/cylinder: 8
sectors/cylinder: 264
cylinders: 776
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
4 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 -
65535)
b: 32768 65536 swap # (Cyl. 65536 -
98304)
c: 204864 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 -
204864)
d: 106560 98304 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 98304 -
204864)
#
dd-ed the 32M-diskimage.gz file onto the "a" partition.
Tried to boot
What happened on the console:
=======================
KN02-BA V5.7j
3/misc/kbd
?STF (4: Ln#0 Kbd self test)
3/misc/mouse
?STF (4: Ln#1 Pntr self test)
>>cnfg 3
3: KN02-BA DEC V5.7j TCF0 ( 48 MB)
(enet: 08-00-2b-28-bd-1d)
(SCSI = 7)
---------------------------------------------------
DEV PID VID REV SCSI DEV
===== ================== ========== ====== ========
rz3 RZ23 (C) DEC DEC 0A18 DIR
rz4 RRD42 (C) DEC DEC 4.5d CD-ROM
rz5 RZ25 (C) DEC DEC 0700 DIR
dcache( 64 KB), icache( 64 KB)
mem( 0): a0000000:a0ffffff ( 16 MB)
mem( 1): a1000000:a1ffffff ( 16 MB)
mem( 2): a2000000:a2ffffff ( 16 MB)
>>boot 3/rz3/netbsd
Boot: 3/rz3/netbsd
Size: 1230656+55536+102600
Starting at 0x80030000
Using PROM serial output until serial drivers initialized
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
NetBSD 1.2G (GENERIC) #19: Sat Aug 30 01:09:13 PDT 1997
jonathan@Reno.DSG.Stanford.EDU:/reno/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 50331648
avail mem = 42295296
using 1228 buffers containing 5029888 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000 CPU Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 3.0
L1 cache: 64kb Instruction, 64kb Data.
tc0 at mainbus0: 12.5 MHz clock
asic0 at tc0 slot 3 offset 0x0
le0 at asic0 offset 0xc0000 priority 4: address 08:00:2b:28:bd:1d
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
scc0 at asic0 offset 0x100000 priority 6
scc1 at asic0 offset 0x180000 priority o (In sccattach: cn_dev = 0x1102)
(Unit =
1): console
clock0 at asic0 offset 0x200000 priority 0: mc146818 or compatible
asc0 at asic0 offset 0x300000 priority 3: target 7
Beginning old-style SCSI device autoconfiguration
rz3 at asc0 drive 3 slave 0 DEC RZ23 (C) DEC rev 0A18, 204864 512
byte block
s
rz4 at asc0 drive 4 slave 0 DEC RRD42 (C) DEC rev 4.5d, 0 0 byte
blocks
boot device: rz3
root on rz3a dumps on rz3b
WARNING: clock gained 70 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs
Nov 18 00:37:07 init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault
Nov 18 00:37:40 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to
single
user mode
Nov 18 00:37:42 init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault
Nov 18 00:38:15 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to
single
user mode
Nov 18 00:38:17 init: fatal signal: Segmentation fault
PRESSED the Break key at this point......
Stopped at 0x801204ac: jr ra
db>
What I also tried:
=============
boot 3/rz3/netbsd n and answering the questions manually.
disklabel -B with rzboot and bootrz, then unpacked base.tar.gz and
etc.tar.gz as per "instructions" but it never got past
Boot: 3/rz3/netbsd
Size: 1230656+55536 <==== what happened to the "+102600" here.
then it hung.
I noticed that the disklabel that was installed as part of the diskimage
has the following information in it:
# disklabel -r /dev/rrz3a
# /dev/rrz3a:
type: SCSI
disk: fu2263sa
label:
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 53
tracks/cylinder: 15
sectors/cylinder: 795
cylinders: 1648
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0 # milliseconds
track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds
drivedata: 0
8 partitions:
# size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg]
a: 65536 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 -
82*)
b: 131072 65536 4.2BSD 512 4096 16 # (Cyl. 82*-
247*)
c: 1312344 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 -
1650*)
d: 512000 196608 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 247*-
891*)
e: 409600 708608 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 891*-
1406*)
g: 1148504 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 -
1444*)
h: 1148504 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 -
1444*)
Which doesn't even closely resemble my disk geometry or layout. Maybe
this has something to do with the reason for the apparent failures I'm
having. Surely only the first partition (and perhaps the swap space) is
important since the size of the image is 32MB. Why doesn't it say
"swap" for fstype on partition "b" (instead of 4.2BSD), and shouldn't
partition "c" be unused ?
Any and all help appreciated. Also, is there a list of boot options
(single user/no swap/multiuser,etc ) ?
PS: I've already decided, based on first impressions, that if there is
one thing that will keep people off NetBSD, it *HAS* to be the
incredibly lacking installation documentation. Is there a "Definitive"
guide somewhere that I've missed ?
Regards
Jason Armistead
armistej@oeca.otis.com