Re: Install of NetBSD on 3000/300 Fails Repeatably

> On Jan 5, 2022, at 5:43 AM, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 05, 2022 at 07:34:37PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
>> In my experience, there were several trouble around SIMM and CPU modules
>> and I had to remove/reinstall them to pass firmware checks.
>> (though IIRC there was no machine check on NetBSD kernel)
> 
> I have been unable to find working SIMM modules for my 3000/300 so far,
> I wonder if some other part failed (or is marginal) and causes this fallout,
> I have not seen ram chips go bad in masses on other machines.
> 
> Or maybe the CPU module is the main culprit instead (haven't replaced that).

The interesting thing is that the install fails at the _exact same point_ every time. I repeatedly ran the entire test suite from PAL, and came up with no errors, as well. That’s what made me suspect CPU cache, but it is an odd failure mode.

- Alex