Subject: Re: VS3100 and the new snapshot kernel...
To: NetBSD/vax Mailing List <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 12/05/1998 21:44:44
On Sat, 5 Dec 1998, Brian D Chase wrote:
> On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Marc Gutschner wrote:

> > I'm currently having some - uhm - bizarre problems with the current VAX
> > kernels and my VS3100/m38. I compiled myself a kernel from -current
> > source sup'd one or two days ago. The compile itself went really smooth
> > but as soon as I tried to boot, the kernel get's loaded and immediateley
> > bombs out with a 'RESTART SYS'

> Same here.  On my VS3100/M38, latest snapshot, older bootloader which is
> using rarp/bootparamd.  Is the kernel expecting a BOOTP server? (Not that
> it would explain the following troubles).
> 
>  -ESA0
>  >> NetBSD/vax boot [980110 22:29] <<
>  : /netbsd
>  boot: client IP address: 10.3.250.106
>  boot: client name: meme
>  root addr=10.3.250.41 path=/export/meme/root
>  806876+44788+164520
>   85 RESTART SYS
>   84 FAIL
> 
>   83 BOOT SYS
> 
>  [loops through the above boot attempts]

Okay, the MicroVAX II with DEQNA results in the following:

  >>> b xqa0

    2..1..0..


  >> NetBSD/vax boot [980311 22:57] <<
  : /netbsd
  boot: client IP address: 10.3.250.109
  boot: client name: vaxzilla
  root addr=10.3.250.41 path=/export/vaxzilla/root
  806876+44788+164520 start 0x8e4

  ?06 HLT INST
      PC = 800C5032


The VAXstation 2000 behaves the same as the VS3100.

-brian.
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