Which NetBSD on a VS3176?

[Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost>]

Hi,

from time to time it happens that I want to try if it is possible to
install NetBSD on one of max VAXStations.

Since here where some rumors lately that some Bugs are fixed now,
I've pulled a 6.1.4 iso image and tried to install:

>>> sh dev
 VMS/VMB  ULTRIX    ADDR    DEVTYP  NUMBYTES  RM/FX  WP  DEVNAM  REV
 -------  ------  --------  ------  --------  -----  --  ------  ---
 ESA0     SE0     08-00-2B-23-C2-5A

 DKA200   RZ2     A/2/0/00  DISK     1.05 GB   FX        RZ26L  440C
 DKA400   RZ4     A/4/0/00  DISK     40.2 MB   FX        DCAS-34S65A
 DKA500   RZ5     A/5/0/00  RODISK    171 MB   RM        CD-ROM 0167
 ...HostID....    A/6       INITR

 ...HostID....    B/6       INITR

>>> b dka500


-DKA500
>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.11] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot 0
getdisklabel: no disk label
nfs_open: must mount first.
open netbsd.vax: No such file or directory
> boot netbsd
getdisklabel: no disk label
nfs_open: must mount first.
3109016|

Here the spinner stops and nothing other happens.
I have a serial console connected to the printer port, the Terminal is a
seyon using an xterm on FreeBSD 9.2-stable.

As you can see, there are two Disks on the machine currently containing a
working OpenBSD 5.2, DKA200 is only a /tmp filesystem.
The CDROM Drive is an Toshiba XM5701, one of the few that is working for
installing VMS on that machine. The CDROM is readable and error free.

The Machine reports Errors like this after power on:


KA43-A  V1.2          

F...E...D...C...B...A_..9...8...7?..6...5...4...3_..2_..1...


 ?  C  0080  0000.4001
??  7  80A0  3424.21D0
 ?  6  80A1  0000.4001
 ?  4  00D4  100F.1F63

... but as far as I kno they are related to not connected loopbacks,
Mouse, Keyboard and the 7 has todo with the big 4GB disk where
the Firmware has its problems (12 Bit SCSI CMDs).

This doesn't prevent OpenBSD to work.

So please, which NetBSD Version is working on that VaxStation 3100 Model 76
with gpx graphics (not used)? I know that it is "supported" what (it seems)
doesn't means that it works. Which NetBSD works?


OpenBSD 5.4 iso is booting fine:

>>> b dka500


-DKA500
>> OpenBSD/vax boot [1.16] <<
>> Press enter to autoboot now, or any other key to abort: 0
> boot bsd
changing bootrpb.unit from 500 to 5
2525908+389356=0x2c7d08
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
        The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2013 OpenBSD. All rights reserved.
http://www.OpenBSD.org

OpenBSD 5.4 (RAMDISK) #0: Thu Aug  1 18:47:43 MDT 2013
    deraadt%vax.openbsd.org@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/RAMDISK
VAXstation 3100/m76 [0B000006 04010002]
cpu: KA43
real mem = 16515072 (15MB)
avail mem = 12095488 (11MB)
mainbus0 at root
vsbus0 at mainbus0
vsbus0: interrupt mask 8
dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 196 ipl 14 maskbit 6: console, 4 lines
lkkbd0 at dz0 line 0
wskbd0 at lkkbd0
ncr0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0080 vec 504 ipl 14 maskbit 1
scsibus0 at ncr0: 8 targets, initiator 6
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 2 lun 0: <DEC, RZ26L (C) DEC, 440C> SCSI2 0/direct
fixed
serial.DEC_RZ26L_(C)_DECPCB=420244076687(ZG44076687_?);_HDA=0000000044198178
sd0: 1001MB, 512 bytes/sector, 2050860 sectors
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 4 lun 0: <IBM, DCAS-34330, S65A> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
serial.IBM_DCAS-34330_B3J53343_
sd1: 4134MB, 512 bytes/sector, 8467200 sectors
cd0 at scsibus0 targ 5 lun 0: <TOSHIBA, CD-ROM XM-5701TA, 0167> SCSI2
5/cdrom removable
ncr1 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0180 vec 508 ipl 14 maskbit 0
scsibus1 at ncr1: 8 targets, initiator 6
le0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 80 ipl 14 maskbit 5 buf
0x28518000-0x28527fff
le0: address 08:00:2b:23:c2:5a
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
gpx0 at vsbus0 csr 0x3c000000 vec 68 ipl 14 maskbit 3
gpx0: 1024x864 4 plane color framebuffer
wsdisplay0 at gpx0
wsdisplay0: screen 0 added (std, vt100 emulation)
wskbd0: connecting to wsdisplay0
lkkbd0: no keyboard
boot device: cd0
disklabels not read: sd1 cd0 rd0
root on rd0a swap on rd0b dump on rd0b
clock has gained 288 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T

Welcome to the OpenBSD/vax 5.4 installation program.
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? i
At any prompt except password prompts you can escape to a shell by
typing '!'. Default answers are shown in []'s and are selected by
pressing RETURN.  You can exit this program at any time by pressing
Control-C, but this can leave your system in an inconsistent state.

...

So plaase, what I'm doing wrong every time (with NetBSD), or it is not me
that is doing something wrong at all?

Regards,

Holm
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