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

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

Don't bother. 5.0 is broken enough that it don't boot at all on our 
8650, and when I tried it on my 4000/90 it just hangs after running 
build.sh a day or two.

        Johnny

Anders Magnusson wrote:
> Hehe, interesting :-)
>
> I might put the dust off an old 11/750 with an RP07 disk and see if
> it works with 5.0... :-)
>
> -- Ragge
>
>
> Brad Parker wrote:
> > I'm sure everyone is on the edge of their seats waiting to hear about
> > 11/730 support :-)
> >
> > 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!
> >
> > -brad
> >
> > ------
> >
> > Organization: Heeltoe Consulting
> >    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
> >
> > NetBSD 2.0.3 (VAX780) #9: Wed Jan  7 12:11:40 EST 2009
> >         
> > brad@mwave:/files1/netbsd/NetBSD-2.0.3/root/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/obj/VAX780
> >
> > VAX 11/730
> > cpu0: KA730, ucode rev 4
> > total memory = 8188 KB
> > avail memory = 6316 KB
> > mainbus0 (root)
> > ubi0 at mainbus0
> > mem0 at ubi0 tr0
> > uba0 at ubi0 tr3: DW730
> > uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 154 ipl 15
> > mscpbus0 at uda0: version 3 model 6
> > mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
> > ra0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: RA81
> > de0 at uba0 csr 174510 vec 120 ipl 15
> > de0: delua, hardware address 08:00:2b:cc:dd:ee
> > ts0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224 ipl 15
> > ts0: TS11
> > ts0: rev 0, extended features enabled, transport online
> > boot device: de0
> > root on de0
> > nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
> > nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: xxx.xxx.x.20
> > nfs_boot: my_name=vax
> > nfs_boot: my_domain=heeltoe.com
> > nfs_boot: my_addr=xxx.xxx.x.73
> > nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
> > nfs_boot: gateway=xxx.xxx.x.1
> > root on mwave:/opt/fs/vax
> > Clock has lost 1 day(s) - CHECK AND RESET THE DATE.
> > root file system type: nfs
> > calling uvm_scheduler()
> > warning: no /dev/console
> > ...