On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 03:47:25PM -0700, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Geoff Buckingham wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 02:02:36PM -0400, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > > GB> Memory Size:  128 MB
> > >
> > > ...try it w/ 32 meg.
> > >
> > Will these things work with one SIMM, I only have 32MB SIMMS?
> >
> 
> 
> I believe you always need pairs of SIMMs...
> 
I had my first chance to try the sept 5th snapshot this weekend.

I can now boot a 712/60 with 64MB....

NetBSD 1.6D (GENERIC) #0: Thu Sep  5 12:53:18 EDT 2002
    fredette@the-gates-of-delirium.home:/data/union-hp700-c/src/sys/arch/hp700/compile/GENERIC
HP9000/712/60 (Gecko)
real mem = 65536 KB (73728 reserved for PROM, 55968 KB used by NetBSD)
avail mem = 51476 KB
using 844 buffers containing 3376 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root) [flex fff80000]
pdc0 at mainbus0
mem0 at mainbus0 hpa fffbf000: viper rev 0, ctrl 40400102<eisa_prf> size 64MB
cpu0 at mainbus0 hpa fffbe000 irq 31 ipl 0: PA7100LC (Hummingbird) rev 5
cpu0: PCX-L, PA-RISC 1.1c, lev 1, cat A, 60 MHz clk
cpu0: shadows, 32K/32K D/I caches, 120 shared TLB, 8 shared BTLB
cpu0: PCX-L (CMOS-26B) floating point, rev 1
lasi0 at mainbus0 hpa f0000000 irq 28: rev 3.0
gsc0 at lasi0
"PS/2 port" at gsc0 (type a, sv 84) hpa f0108100 not configured
"PS/2 port" at gsc0 (type a, sv 84) hpa f0108000 not configured
"floppy controller" at gsc0 (type a, sv 83) hpa f010a000 not configured
"Advanced audio (ext.)" at gsc0 (type a, sv 7b) hpa f0104000 not configured
lpt0 at gsc0 hpa f0102000 irq 7 ipl 1
"Core RS-232C" at gsc0 (type a, sv 8c) hpa f0105000 not configured
ie0 at gsc0 hpa f0107000 irq 8 ipl 2: v1.0 address 08:00:09:5a:b1:72, type LASI/i82596CA
osiop0 at gsc0 hpa f0106000 irq 9 ipl 3: NCR53C710 rev 2, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at osiop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
sti0 at mainbus0 hpa f8000000: HPA208LC800 rev 8.04;7
sti0: 2048x1024 frame buffer, 800x600x8 display, offset 0x0
sti0: 8x16 font type 1, 16 bpc, charset 0-255
wsdisplay0 at sti0
biomask 00000038 netmask 0000003c ttymask 0000007e
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST31230N, HP04> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 1001 MB, 3992 cyl, 5 head, 102 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2051460 sectors
sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
sd0: no disk label
boot device: ie0
root on ie0
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: 10.0.0.19
nfs_boot: my_domain=griffinfarm.co.uk
nfs_boot: my_addr=10.0.0.58
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
nfs_boot: gateway=10.0.0.1
root on 10.0.0.19:/export/oak
WARNING: clock lost 543 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: nfs
ie0: receive descriptors out of sync at 100
ie0: reset
ie0: receive descriptors out of sync at 79
ie0: reset

anyone know why passwd does not work?

# passwd
passwd: who are you ??