Re: NetBSD/vax

[Erno Palonheimo <esp%iki.fi@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 01:03:19PM +0200, Erno Palonheimo wrote:
> On 2020-03-17 12:50, Martin Husemann wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 10:47:28AM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> >>The system can be installed, and get to run, but it probably
> >>require some
> >>manual work.

> >I think fixed all low memory issues in the install media some years
> >ago, but of course new issues might have come up and went unnoticed.
> >Back then booting from CD and installing worked on a 3100 with 24 MB
> >(my only currently available test machine has 128 MB and I have no
> >spare
> >SCSI disks any more to test installations - but of course we can
> >test in
> >SIMH).

> FWIW, I had 8.0 running (slowly) on a MicroVAX 3100m30 with 24
> megabytes of memory. I netbooted the installer and it worked just
> fine. I might reinstall NetBSD on the machine in coming weeks and
> can report how it goes.

So yesterday I did this. Installer ran its course fine but the system
would not boot - kernel hangs right after bootloader messages, before
the kernel itself prints anything out. Then I remembered this same
thing happened with 8.0 and I actually fixed it, but apparently my
patch was never incorporated and thus I need to build a custom kernel
for it to actually boot. Back then, Ragge asked me to send him a diff
so he could commit it, which I did, but looks like it was forgotten.

Here's a link to a diff against 8.0 that will probably apply just fine
to 9.0.

https://esp.iki.fi/netbsd-8.0.lcg0.lkkbd.patch

-e