Subject: Re: Bootblocks for MV3100m95
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Michael Kukat <michael@unixiron.org>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/29/2002 09:57:49
Hi !

On Wed, 29 May 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Now that I have that nice MV3100m95, I want it to do somthing usefull.
> As the bootblocks do not work on that machine I have to boot via
> network, but this machine will be the my netboot server. Chicken - egg
> problem. So is the question:
> What is needed to be done to the bootblocks?
>
> I had a look at them, but didn't get far. It seams that the machine
> hangs at the end of xxboot or at the beginning of /boot. Do I need to do
> some XDELTA hard core debuging?

SCSI-drivers or the ROM-drivers to load 2nd stage booter and kernel are
missing. The bootloader is to be reprogrammed, if i remember right (Ragge? you
said something a while ago...), so i didn't have a look into this.

Maybe you need XDELTA to check the ROM routines startaddresses, i have no idea
currently, as i didn't have a look at it for some months now.

...Michael

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