Re: Port help wanted/needed?

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, David Johnson wrote:

> David,
>
> I received your small build for Sun 3/50.  This evening I finally got all
> the requisite equipment out and gave it a try. 
>
> I was able to get the Sun 3/50 to read the file from a tftp server over a
> thin-net interface.  I got the following:
>
> downloaded 1373069 bytes from tftp server
>
> then the screen filled with some binary trash in the screen buffer after
> which I got:
>
> Exception 10 at 00004000
>
> >
>
> Well this is further than I had gotten before.  I know there isnt much to go
> on here in terms of
> trying another build.  If you or someone who is watching knows where to go
> from here, I'd like to try to get a working build for this old 3/50 with 4M
> memory running diskless.


        Are you booting the netboot program which is then loading the
        kernel, or just the kernel direct?

        The latest netboot should be at:

        
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-5-0-RC2/200902090142Z/sun3/installation/netboot/netboot

        As an aside to try to get a working start point, could you
        try booting a (much) earlier DISKLESS kernel from
        ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.6/sun3/binary/kernel/

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