Re: VS3100M76 - current

[Cory Smelosky <b4%gewt.net@localhost>]

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> On 22 May 2014, at 11:28, Holm Tiffe <holm%freibergnet.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Johnny Billquist wrote:
> 
>>> On 2014-05-22 16:51, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>>> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>> 
>>>>> On 2014-05-22 16:28, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>>>>> Johnny Billquist wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>>> On 2014-05-22 15:54, Holm Tiffe wrote:
>>>>>>> Next thing would be NEtbooting and teht the folowing available releases
>>>>>>> and to find out where it stops.
>>>>>>> Anyone knows what the kernel tries next after putting out this "root 
>>>>>>> file
>>>>>>> system is ffs" (or so?). That is where 1.6.2 simply halts...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I seem to remember that the main reason if it stops there is if you do
>>>>>> not have /dev populated.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>    Johnny
>>>>> 
>>>>> Hmm, it halts wenn booting from the vax.iso from NetBSD.org. Not sure if
>>>>> /dev is populated properly there :-))
>>>> 
>>>> Oh. I thought it halted when booting your disk.
>>>> I would expect the CD to have /dev populated.
>>>> 
>>>> More recent versions will setup a /dev on the fly if it don't exist, but
>>>> it takes a hell of a long time on a VAX, I can tell...
>>>> But I have no memory of that ability being in 1.5.3.
>>>> 
>>>>    Johnny
>>> 
>>> Hmm.. that wasn't there as I've experimented last time with taht rtVAX and
>>> netbooting.. but I'll look for, just in case ...
>> 
>> Don't hurt to check. And I definitely remember the system just hanging 
>> if /dev wasn't populated.
>> 
>>> Another thing:
>>> 
>>> It is curious, but I can't get the M38 boot from sd0 (dka300).
>> 
>> [...]
>> 
>> I don't think it was ever not supported to boot, but getting the disk 
>> label on the disk, as well as getting the boot blocks on the disk used 
>> to be very tricky. The tools did not work well.
>> 
>> The fact that you seem to have a fictitious label suggests that this is 
>> your problem.
>> 
>> Afraid I can't give good instructions at that point. I used to have to 
>> jump through various hoops, incantations of disklabel and bypassing the 
>> disk cache in order to get a label on the disk.
>> 
>>    Johnny
> 
> Hm. I'm booting -current over the net now, will try to using its
> installboot.
> While watching again that spinner, there MUST be something wrong.
> You can't compare the speed of netbooting 1.5.3 and 6-current.
> The differene is by factor 100 or more. I've gunzipped several kernels in
> the mantime, that really doesn't take that long, even on that slow VAXen.
> 
> Is it possible that thre is something wrong with interrupts..?

More recent netbsd is much much much much much bigger and heavier tbh.

> 
> ..mumble...
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Holm
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