Re: installboot is broken

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

On 2013-04-11 21:22, Rhialto wrote:
> On Sun 24 Mar 2013 at 22:28:30 +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> > I think I started running NetBSD on the 8650 in the 1.6 timeframe.
>
> By the way, I am currently trying the simh vax8600 from the git
> repository. I use the branch with the fixed VMB.EXE so that it boots the
> install cd (remotes/origin/VAX-11-BootBlock-Fixup).
>
> If I boot it off the NetBSD-6.1RC2.iso install cd, using the patched
> VMB.EXE, it starts the boot loader, loads and decompresses the kernel
> (which takes ages), and then prints only a C and then freezes. I suppose
> it is the first character of the kernel output, trying to say "Copyright
> blah Regents of blah".
>
> The CPU is running in some big loop somewhere, one can see that if you
> turn on cpu history, or steps through the code using the STEP command
> from simh.
>
> Could be a bug in either simh or NetBSD of course.

It's a known problem. Sorry for not mentioning it. The console subsystem 
in simh don't work like the real machine. However, I have rewritten the 
console subsystem for NetBSD on the 86x0, so my local copy is working 
right, since it uses the console subsystem in a different way, in which 
simh works right.

        Johnny