karas still not alive (was: Re: Status of port-newsmips?)

[Mauricio <raub%kudria.com@localhost>]

At 21:39 +0900 9/15/02, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In article <a05100300b9a8f32bcfc1@[10.0.0.10]>
> raub%kudria.com@localhost wrote:
>
> >  >Would you please try this image?
> >  >http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-1.6H.fs
> >  >The kernel in this image will call fb initialization only on NWS-3470D.
> >  >If this does not work, more work is needed..
>  :
> >  NEWS> bo fh
> >  NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
> >  NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
> >  (tsutsui@mirage, Sat Sep 14 18:20:02 JST 2002)
> >  Booting fh(0,0,0)
> >  3788720+128968=0x3bc914
> >
> >  Once again,t hat is as far as the machine went. =(
>
> Ugh.. then how about the next one?
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-1.6H2.fs
> All fb and kbd devices are disabled in this kernel.
>
> If it doesn't work either, please try this old image:
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/boot-newsmips-14L-nofb.fs.gz
> There was a report it booted on NWS-3720 about three years ago.
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
> tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost

        Hello there!

        Here is an update of my boot kernel adventures.  I have been
creating the boot disk in my Sparc 20 (Solaris 2.6).  Today I decided
to go one boot file at a time:

<In the sparc 20 ----------------->
# ls -l
total 10034
-rw-rw-rw-   1 raub     weirdos   105696 Sep 10 21:09 INSTALL.txt
-rw-rw-rw-   1 raub     weirdos  1261568 Sep 14 10:29 boot-newsmips-1.6H.fs
-rw-rw-rw-   1 raub     weirdos  1228800 Sep 15 10:13 boot-newsmips-1.6H2.fs
-rw-rw-rw-   1 raub     weirdos  1231352 Sep 15 10:14 boot-newsmips-14L-nofb.fs
-rw-rw-rw-   1 raub     weirdos  1261568 Sep 10 21:08 boot.fs
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     other        609 Sep 17 23:25 txt
# dd if=boot.fs bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0a
68+1 records in
68+1 records out
# eject floppy

<in the NEWS machine, karas ----------------->
Testing memories: done.
12288K bytes available, 32K bytes reserved.

SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3710, Machine ID #30145, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:e7

NEWS> bo fh
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(autobuild%tgm.daemon.org@localhost, Sat Sep  7 19:57:02 UTC 2002)
Booting fh(0,0,0)
3788624+127656=0x3bc394

?????
<back to the ss20, kushana -------------------->
# dd if=boot-newsmips-1.6H.fs bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0a
68+1 records in
68+1 records out
# eject floppy

<back to karas ------------------------>
Testing memories: done.
12288K bytes available, 32K bytes reserved.

SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3710, Machine ID #30145, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:e7

NEWS> bo fh
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(autobuild%tgm.daemon.org@localhost, Sat Sep  7 19:57:02 UTC 2002)
Booting fh(0,0,0)
3788624+127656=0x3bc394

?????
<back to kushana -------------------->
# dd if=boot-newsmips-1.6H2.fs bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0a
66+1 records in
66+1 records out
# eject floppy

<back to karas ------------------------>
Testing memories: done.
12288K bytes available, 32K bytes reserved.

SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3710, Machine ID #30145, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:e7

NEWS> bo fh
NetBSD/newsmips Primary Boot
NetBSD/newsmips Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
(tsutsui@mirage, Sat Sep 14 18:20:02 JST 2002)
Booting fh(0,0,0)
3714880+127988=0x3aa4d0

?????

<back to kushana -------------------->
# dd if=boot-newsmips-14L-nofb.fs bs=18k of=/dev/rfd0a
write: Invalid argument
66+1 records in
66+1 records out
# eject floppy

Does not sound very promising; I wonder if the file was corrupted
when I downloaded...

<back to karas ------------------------>
Testing memories: done.
12288K bytes available, 32K bytes reserved.

SONY NET WORK STATION R3000 Monitor Release 2.0A
Model NWS-3710, Machine ID #30145, Ethernet address 08:00:46:00:79:e7

NEWS> bo fh

TLB miss exception (Load or instruction fetch)
cause=80000008, sr=40c404, badvaddr=1c38, epc=a0000000
NEWS>

It sure makes me wonder if (a) the floppy drive is dirty/whatever or
(b) the machine is otherwise defective. =(