Re: netbsd on vax 11/730; booting in sim

[Dave McGuire <mcguire%neurotica.com@localhost>]

On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:20 PM, Brad Parker wrote:
> I'm sure everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting to hear about
> 11/730 support :-)

  I am!  I think this is fantastic news.

> Anyway, turns out my nfs root was broken; I unpacked the stock  
> 2.0.2 vax
> binaries and things started working better (I discovered /sbin/init  
> was
> getting traps... oops).
>
> Below is some output;  Now that 2.0.3 is working I'll try the  
> latest and
> make a patch set.  I found that 2.0.3 boots quicker in sim than 1.6ZL.
> It will be interesting to see how 4.0 does...
>
> I also found that when init makes an mfs /dev it runs out of inodes.
> Any idea how to fix that?  It's not fatal.
>
> Next I'll try less memory and real hardware!

  Woohoo!

          -Dave

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Dave McGuire
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