Re: Trying to boot Vaxstation using mopd

[Greg Stark <stark%mit.edu@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:23 AM, Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> I've ported the mopd in NetBSD HEAD to linux. It compiles, but I have not
> tested it.

Well if you want someone to test it feel free to send me a link and
I'll try it out.

Fwiw a helpful soul on this list did run mopcopy for me and it did
work. NetBSD 6, 6.1, and 7.0 crash on startup (triggering interrupt
x18 which reboots on 6, and 6.1 but fails to on 7.0).

So I've install NetBSD 5.2.3 and have a diskless install almost
working. Single-user mode works fine but when I try a full boot I get
as far as a getty login which prints:

Terminal type? [unknown]
Terminal type is vt102

And then nothing. Either bash or something in the default dotfiles
freezes indefinitely or something has broken the serial settings or
switched the console device :(

It's very frustrating of course because the serial console is what you
go to to figure out what's going on and here I lose exactly the
debugging tool I need. I can't log in remotely yet though perhaps I
could install opensshd or telnetd in single-user-mode to debug the
serial console.

-- 
greg