At 10:50 PM 1/28/02 -0600, Matthew Sell wrote:
>I would really appreciate a little insight into what I may be doing wrong.....

Uhhh, Linux doesn't work.

>I was originally attempting to install Linux on a few of my VAXen for 
>learning. However, both of the pre-compiled KA43 and KA46 kernels fail 
>miserably to boot - and crash immediately on the following computers:
>
>4000-300
>4000-500A
>MicroVAX 3100
>VAXstation 3100 M76

Next issue is that neither the 4000/300 or 4000/500 have a KA4x processor, 
they are a KA670 and a KA690 respectively. The VAXStation 3100/M76 _is_ a 
KA43 processor, so it might work. The MicroVAX 3100 (vs the VAXStation 
3100) is probably a KA41 and will also not work. The KA46 is found in the 
higher end MicroVAX 3100 like the M80.

>Figuring that the Linux port to VAX was not as mature than NetBSD, I 
>attempted to MOP boot the same machines using the generic NetBSD-VAX kernel.
>
>That kernel dies a horrible death on startup as well. No messages other 
>than a program counter and errors. Here is a list of boot messages I sent 
>to the Linux-VAX guys; the errors for NetBSD are the same, except program 
>counter locations.....

If the error messages are the same, then you aren't actually getting the 
NetBSD bootloader to MOP over. It has a completely different banner, it 
will do the little spinning thing and tell you its about to boot unless you 
type a key, count down, and then boot.

 > I was hoping to use Linux, but I may have to use NetBSD instead. I 
already have one running VMS.

Probably won't happen in the near future.

>There are some guys in France working on FreeVMS using Linux, and I was 
>hoping to work on porting their work to a version of Linux on VAX (ironic, 
>huh?).

That's a new one on me. Although its no stranger than porting BSD back to 
the VAX.

>Anyway - any hints would be greatly appreciated. I'm not even sure where 
>to start troubleshooting......
>.... I bet it's something really stupid I'm doing......

Yup, you didn't change your MOP symlinks and your getting the linux kernel 
instead of the NetBSD bootloader.

--Chuck