Re: NetBSD on DECsystem 5000/240

Hi,

I guess  this seems  to have something to do with how I'm doing the
"dd-ing" of the diskimage installer on an installer disk. dd-ing the
netbsd installer from Ultrix directly to the "entire disk" does work
with NetBSD-10.0RC3 but not with 9.2 and 9.3. (or even 10.0RC4). Doing
the dd while running NetBSD, after creating a valid disklabel seems to
do the trick. I guess this is mentioned in the installation guide.

/Magnus

On Wed, Feb 21, 2024 at 10:24 AM Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I went through a few versions of the NetBSD installer, below is from
> > testing 6.1.5, I got similar results with more recent versions, up to
> > 9.3. I can load up 9.3 again if it is of interest.
>
> Just FYI, NetBSD/pmax 9.2 worked on my DECstation 5000/133 (3MIN):
> ---
> lkkbd0: no keyboard
> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
>     2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,
>     2018, 2019, 2020 The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
> Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
>     The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
>
> NetBSD 9.2 (GENERIC) #0: Wed May 12 13:15:55 UTC 2021
>         [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/pmax/compile/GENERIC
> DECstation 5000/125 (3MIN)
> total memory = 98304 KB
> avail memory = 91172 KB
> timecounter: Timecounters tick every 3.906 msec
> Kernelized RAIDframe activated
> mainbus0 (root)
> cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000A CPU (0x230) Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 3.0
> cpu0: 64KB/4B direct-mapped Instruction cache, 64 TLB entries
> cpu0: 64KB/4B direct-mapped write-through Data cache
> tc0 at mainbus0: 12.5 MHz clock
> ioasic0 at tc0 slot 3 offset 0x0
> le0 at ioasic0 offset 0xc0000: address 08:00:2b:24:e1:af
> le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
> zsc0 at ioasic0 offset 0x100000
> vsms0 at zsc0 channel 0
> wsmouse0 at vsms0 mux 0
> zstty0 at zsc0 channel 1
> zsc1 at ioasic0 offset 0x180000
> lkkbd0 at zsc1 channel 0
> wskbd0 at lkkbd0: console keyboard
> zstty1 at zsc1 channel 1
> mcclock0 at ioasic0 offset 0x200000: mc146818 or compatible
> asc0 at ioasic0 offset 0x300000: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
> scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
> device PMAF-AA  at tc0 slot 2 offset 0x0 not configured
> tfb0 at tc0 slot 1 offset 0x0: 1280x1024, 8,24bpp
> wsdisplay0 at tfb0 kbdmux 1
> wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay0
> sfb0 at tc0 slot 0 offset 0x0: 1280x1024, 8bpp
> wsdisplay1 at sfb0 kbdmux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
> wsmux1: connecting to wsdisplay1
> timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 256 Hz quality 0
> scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
> sd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <CONNER, CFP1080S, 4040> disk fixed
> sd0: 1030 MB, 3658 cyl, 6 head, 96 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 2110812 sectors
> sd0: sync (200.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (5.000MB/s) transfers, tagged queueing
> boot device: sd0
> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> root file system type: ffs
> kern.module.path=/stand/pmax/9.2/modules
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui