Re: boot issue on NetBSD/vax 8.x and 9.x

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

I wrote:

> So it has never worked on any VAXen with only 8 MB memory.
> Just changing the RELOC value to 0x7e0000 makes bootloader work again
> on my 8 MB VS3100/m30.

Ah, I was a bit stupid.
0x7e0000 makes bootloader starts, but it fails on loading a kernel,
maybe due to lack of heap memory for FFS blocksize.

With RELOC=0x7d0000 it can load at least 10.99.2 custom kernel:

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>>> boot


-ESA0
>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.12 (Tue Jan 24 13:57:04 UTC 2023)] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot 5
Trying BOOTP
Using IP address: 192.168.20.76
myip:  (192.168.20.76)
root addr=192.168.20.1 path=/r/export/NetBSD/vax/root
open netbsd.vax: No such file or directory
> boot netbsd
2419352+98428 [181456+172865]=0x2bd738
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
[   1.0000000]     2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013,
[   1.0000000]     2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
[   1.0000000]     The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
[   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
[   1.0000000]     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

[   1.0000000] NetBSD 10.99.2 (VS3100) #17: Tue Jan 24 20:10:13 JST 2023
[   1.0000000] 	tsutsui@mirage:/s/tsutsui/netbsd-src/sys/arch/vax/compile/VS3100
[   1.0000000] VAXstation 3100/m{30,40}
[   1.0000000] total memory = 8072 KB
[   1.0000000] avail memory = 4616 KB
[   1.0000000] mainbus0 (root)
[   1.0000000] cpu0 at mainbus0: KA420, CVAX, 1KB L1 cache, 64KB L2 cache
[   1.0000000] vsbus0 at mainbus0
[   1.0000000] vsbus0: interrupt mask 8
[   1.0000000] le0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 120 ipl 17 maskbit 5 buf 0x354000-0x363fff
[   1.0000000] le0: address 08:00:2b:11:dc:17
[   1.0000000] le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
[   1.0000000] dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 304 ipl 17 maskbit 6
[   1.0000000] dz0: 4 lines
[   1.0000000] lkkbd0 at dz0
[   1.0000000] lkkbd0: no keyboard
[   1.0000000] wskbd0 at lkkbd0 mux 1
[   1.0000000] lkms0 at dz0
[   1.0000000] wsmouse0 at lkms0 mux 0
[   1.0000000] hdc0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0000 vec 774 ipl 17 maskbit 0
[   1.0000000] si0 at vsbus0 csr 0x200c0080 vec 770 ipl 17 maskbit 1
[   1.0000000] si0: NCR5380, SCSI ID 6
[   1.0000000] scsibus0 at si0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
[   1.0000000] gpx0 at vsbus0 csr 0x3c000000 vec 104 ipl 17 maskbit 3
[   1.0000000] gpx0: 1024x864 8 plane color framebuffer
[   1.0000000] wsdisplay0 at gpx0 kbdmux 1
[   1.0200030] scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
[   1.0600030] WARNING: system needs entropy for security; see entropy(7)
[   2.0000030] lk201_decode: error b6
[   3.1300030] sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <DEC, RZ22     (C) DEC, 0618> disk fixed
[   3.2500030] sd0: 51216 KB, 776 cyl, 4 head, 33 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 102432 sectors
[   3.2800030] sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
[   3.3700030] boot device: le0
[   3.3700030] root on le0
[   3.3700030] nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
[   6.4000030] nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: 192.168.20.1
[   6.4000030] nfs_boot: my_domain=ceres.dti.ne.jp
[   6.4000030] nfs_boot: my_addr=192.168.20.76
[   6.4000030] nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
[   6.4000030] nfs_boot: gateway=192.168.20.1
[  12.5200030] root on mirage:/r/export/NetBSD/vax/root
[  12.5200030] root file system type: nfs
[  12.5200030] kern.module.path=/stand/vax/10.99.2/modules
/etc/rc.conf is not configured.  Multiuser boot aborted.
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: 

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Izumi Tsutsui