Subject: Making progress: NetBoot for VAXen
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 03/27/1999 00:00:46
	I'm making progress. Slowly, but surely, I'm going to get this going.

	Here's where I stand at the moment. I'm using the boot-Lance.mopformat
bootloader to get a VAXServer 3100 (same CPU as VAXStation 3100) going. It
gets through connecting to the NFS-exported root filesystem on the Linux
box, and it even tries to start NetBSD, but it hangs after the following line.

700416+38912+75784 start 0x9c078

	Also, after this point, the TK70 tape drive beeps. This tells me that
NetBSD is at least trying to probe the SCSI bus. However, after that line
appears, not even the manual 'Halt' pushbutton on the back has any effect.
I need to actually power it off to get it to reset.

	I'm using the gennetbsd kernel dated 16-Jan-99 as the initial boot source.
Is this not right?

	Thanks in advance.


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