Re: Trouble booting 9.2 on Alpha Jensen

Hello Nigel,

The IRQ bug only fixed in -current, so you should try

http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/202112251840Z/images/NetBSD-9.99.93-alpha.iso

--

istvan

On 2021. 12. 25. 1:13, Nigel Johnson wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm new to this group but have been on NetBSD-VAX for quite som etime.
>
> I have an Alpha with VMS on it, bit am trying to get NetBSD running so 
> as to be able to use a SCSI disk that somebody gave me.
>
> The disk is 77GB and won't format under VMS.  It tries to then gets 
> all sorts of errors due to misreading the geometry, I guess.
>
> I downloaded and dd'ed an ISO and it starts to boot in the CD of the 
> Alpha, but hangs after accessing the floppy:
>
> >>> boo dka400
> INIT-S-CPU...
> AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ...
> AUDIT_CHECKSUM_GOOD
> AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS
> AUDIT_LOAD_DONE
>
>
> NetBSD/alpha 9.2 ISO 9660 Primary Bootstrap
> Jumping to entry point...
>
> NetBSD/alpha 9.2 Secondary Bootstrap, Revision 1.13 (Wed May 12 
> 13:15:55 UTC 2021)
>
> VMS PAL rev: 0x100010530
> OSF PAL rev: 0x20123
> Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.
>
> Boot flags: 0,0
> 11014768+206128=0xab3d90
>
> Entering netbsd at 0xfffffc0000a011a0...
> [   1.0000000] Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
> [   1.0000000] Unrecognized boot flag ','.
> [   1.0000000] Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
> [   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 
> 2003, 2004, 2005,
> [   1.0000000]     2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 
> 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
> [   1.0000000]     2018, 2019, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All 
> rights reserved.
> [   1.0000000] Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
> [   1.0000000]     The Regents of the University of California. All 
> rights reserved.
>
> [   1.0000000] NetBSD 9.2 (INSTALL) #0: Wed May 12 13:15:55 UTC 2021
> [   1.0000000] 
> [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/INSTALL
> [   1.0000000] DEC2000 model 300, 150MHz, s/n
> [   1.0000000] 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> [   1.0000000] total memory = 256 MB
> [   1.0000000] (2048 KB reserved for PROM, 254 MB used by NetBSD)
> [   1.0000000] avail memory = 239 MB
> [   1.0000000] mainbus0 (root)
> [   1.0000000] cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), 21064-0
> [   1.0000000] jensenio0 at mainbus0
> [   1.0000000] pckbc0 at jensenio0 port 0x60
> [   1.0000000] com0 at jensenio0 port 0x3f8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
> [   1.0000000] com0: console
> [   1.0000000] com0: interrupting at vector 0x900
> [   1.0000000] com1 at jensenio0 port 0x2f8: ns8250 or ns16450, no fifo
> [   1.0000000] com1: interrupting at vector 0x920
> [   1.0000000] lpt0 at jensenio0 port 0x3bc
> [   1.0000000] lpt0: interrupting at eisa irq 1
> [   1.0000000] mcclock0 at jensenio0 port 0x170: mc146818 compatible 
> time-of-day clock
> [   1.0000000] eisa0 at jensenio0
> [   1.0000000] device CPQ3111 at eisa0 slot 1 not configured
> [   1.0000000] depca2 at eisa0 slot 2: DEC DE422 Ethernet
> [   1.0000000] depca2: shared memory at 0xd0000-0xdffff
> [   1.0000000] le0 at depca2
> [   1.0000000] le0: failed to clear memory at 0 (0xff != 0xaa)
> [   1.0000000] ahb0 at eisa0 slot 6: Adaptec AHA-1742A SCSI
> [   1.0000000] ahb0: interrupting at eisa irq 12
> [   1.0000000] scsibus0 at ahb0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
> [   1.0000000] isa0 at jensenio0
> [   1.0000000] vga0 at isa0 port 0x3b0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff
> [   1.0000000] wsdisplay0 at vga0 (kbdmux ignored)
> [   1.0000000] fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
>
> Has anybody seen this problem before that maybe knows a solution? Or 
> how to disable testing the isa floppy drive at all?
>
> btw the console shows it as under-sized!  It is DKA200:
>
> >> sho dev
>
>   BOOTDEV      ADDR      DEVTYPE    RM/FX    DEVNAM      REV NUMBYTES
>   -------      ----      -------    -----    ------      --- --------
>   ERA0         08-00-2B-BB-88-6B
>   DVA0         PC Floppy DISK       RM
>   SCSI Devices..
>   DKA0         A/0/0     DISK       FX       RZ28 D41C      2.10GB
>   DKA100     A/1/0     DISK       FX       RZ28        D41C 2.10GB
>   DKA200     A/2/0     DISK       FX       ST11827     6244 1.03GB
>   DKA400     A/4/0     RODISK  RM      RRD44       1094 ......
>   MKA500     A/5/0     TAPE      RM      TLZ06       0491 ......
>   HOST         A/7/0     PROC                 AHA1742A    G.2
>
> >>>
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Nigel
>
>
>
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