=09Are you using a serial console to talk to the machine?

=09As far as I know netbsd does not (yet) support the graphics
=09console on vaxstations...

=09=09David/absolute

  -- "Its hard to say it... I hate to say it... but its probably me..." --

On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, orur Ivarsson wrote:

> Hi
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> I was wondering if you could help me out? I have MicroVAX3100m20 and I
> am trying to get NetBSD running on it. I was told that m20 is just
> slower CPU than m30/40 so it should boot like m30 model. But it does not
> work, the netbooting does work how ever but it stops when kernel has
> been loaded.
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> Well, I run FreeBSD on 166mhz pentium and did all the things menioned in=
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> http://www.carpediem.com/~brianc/projects/vaxen/VAXstation-netboot-HOWTO.=
html
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> This is what is shown on console:
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> KA41-D  V1.0          ca`
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> F_..E...D...C...B...A...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2_..1...
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>  ?  E  0040  0000.0005
>  ?  C  0080  0000.4001
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>  VMS/VMB  ULTRIX    ADDR    DEVTYP  NUMBYTES  RM/FX  WP  DEVNAM  REV
>  -------  ------  --------  ------  --------  -----  --  ------  ---
>  ESA0     SE0     08-00-2B-25-2E-1A
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>  DKA300   RZ3     A/3/0/00  DISK      209 MB   FX        RZ24   211B
>  MKA500   TZ5     A/5/0/00  TAPE    ........   RM       =20
>  ...HostID....    A/7       INITR
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>  ...HostID....    B/7       INITR
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>  [ESA0:]  ?>>> =20
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>  83 BOOT SYS
> -ESA0
> Nboot
> : /netbsd
> le_softc.sc_r2 =3D 0x3a0000
> device: le0 attached to 08:00:2b:25:2e:1a
> boot: client IP address: 192.168.255.3
> boot: client name: vax
> root addr=3D192.168.255.1 path=3D/home/netbsd-vax
> 683008+35840+70760 start 0x9a1fc
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> It stops at this point but after this it does request the swap file and
> xperfmon shows short activity on nfs.
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> This is from bootparamd:
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> whoami got question for 192.168.255.3
> bootparamd: this is host vax
> Returning vax       192.168.255.1
> bootparamd: getfile got question for "vax" and file "root"
> returning server:didda.est.is path:/home/netbsd-vax address:
> 192.168.255.1
> whoami got question for 192.168.255.3
> bootparamd: this is host vax
> Returning vax       192.168.255.1
> bootparamd: getfile got question for "vax" and file "root"
> returning server:didda.est.is path:/home/netbsd-vax address:
> 192.168.255.1
> bootparamd: getfile got question for "vax" and file "swap"
> returning server:didda.est.is path:/home/netbsd-vax/swap.file address:
> 192.168.255.1
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> After that I am only able to ping the host!
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> I removed memory card from the machine to work around bootproblem with
> more than 16MB memory, and I have also tried to remove any removeable
> add-on cards but no good yet.
> --=20
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> ---------------------------------------------
> FreeBSD has good features,
> Some others are full of unwanted features!
> ---------------------------------------------
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