Subject: Re: Netbooting MicroVAX II with DELQA
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roar_Thron=E6s?= <roart@nvg.ntnu.no>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/21/1998 15:56:30
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, Roar Thron=E6s wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Nathan S. Chantrell wrote:
>=20
> > I am trying to get my uVAX-II with DELQA ethernet to netboot from my
> > Linux box.  I've got mopd running on the linux box, however, when I go
> > to netboot, I get this:=20
> >
> > >>> b/100 xqa0
> >=20
> >   2..
> > Bootfile: (I type mopboot)
> >=20
> > ?4F SCBINT, XQA0
> > ?06 HLT INST
> >     PC =3D 00800EE6
> > Failure.
> > >>>

I've been getting almost exactly the same thing on my MVII:

  2..
?4F SCBINT, XQA0
?06 HLT INST
    PC =3D 000C0E0A
Failure.
>>>

> > I have tried the boot.mopformat from=20
[snip]=20
> > and v0.01, v0.05 and v1.2 of the DEQNA mopboot from=20
> > ftp.nvg.ntnu.no/pub/NetBSD/DEQNA.
>
> If you are going to use one of these, use v1.2.
> (You got to use it with rarp, bootp and bootparams.)

I have v1.2...

> Also, use tcpdump ether host ADDR to see how far it will boot.

I've sent a copy of the tcpdump to Roar...  I don't want to spam the list
with it.

I'm using a DECStation 5000/240 running NetBSD as a boothost.  My DEQNA
is the only one in the system, and is at CSR of 17774440, vector 120,
which is correct according to the documentation.

here's the boot process according to mopd -adf:

MOP DL 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    > ab:0:0:1:0:0      len   11 code 08 RPR=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   > 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    len    1 code 03 ASV=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    > 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   len   11 code 08 RPR=20
Native Image (VAX)
Header Block Count: 1
Image Size:         0000dc00
Load Address:       00000000
Transfer Address:   00000000
MOP DL 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   > 0:0:0:0:0:0       len 1006 code 02 MLD=20
[and then it sits here for a little while]
MOP DL 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    > 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   len    3 code 0a RML=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   > 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    len 1006 code 02 MLD=20
[and continues this until ...]
MOP DL 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   > 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    len 1006 code 02 MLD=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    > 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   len    3 code 0a RML=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   > 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    len  326 code 02 MLD=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    > 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   len    3 code 0a RML=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   > 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    len   32 code 14 PLT=20
MOP DL 8:0:2b:3:38:bc    > 8:0:2b:2f:cb:5f   len    3 code 0a RML
[the end]

the SCBINT shows up sometime in the middle of the MOP transfer.

it happens no matter what the mopfile.

My girlfriend has started to make fun of me, teasing me that I'm never
going to get this VAX running!  Help!

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    "anything but analog, man.  two cans and string beats dealing with
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     scripts [written] to deal with 'em." -- Skeezics Boondoggle