Re: DECstation 5000/200 questions

On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 10:22:25AM +1000, Simon Burge wrote:
> Sean Davis wrote:
> 
> > OK, I've got it at least trying to boot. But, even though it gets the right
> > stuff from BOOTP, I get this trying to boot from tftp:
> > 
> > KN02-AA V5.3t
> > >>boot 6/tftp
> > 4879776?IO: 6/tftp, a.out err (-5)
> > 
> > (the file is not a.out, it's that netbsd-INSTALL.ecoff.gz kernel,
> > un-gzipped. I've tried with the ELF version too, no go there either.)
> > 
> > When trying MOP:
> > >>boot 6/mop
> > 
> > ???
> > ? PC: 0xbfc0584c<vtr=UTLBM>
> > ? CR: 0xc<CE=0,EXC=TLBS>
> > ? SR: 0x30080000<CU1,CU0,CM,IPL=8>
> > ? VA: 0x76e0
> > 
> > The mop server shows this (I'm just running mopd in foreground mode):
> > RSX Image
> > Header Block Count: 0
> > Image Size:         00000000
> > Load Address:       000076e0
> > Transfer Address:   00000200
> > MOP DL 0:8:c7:a4:a9:40   > 8:0:2b:1b:c6:a4   len 1058 code 02 MLD
> > 
> > 
> > I'm guessing that this is the "kernel is way the hell too big" issue... but
> > then, the question is, what file do I tell it to load over the network? :-)
> 
> If this is the size issue (and not a hardware issue), older
> releases for pmax include a "nfsnetbsd.gz" kernel which is quite
> small.  It doesn't have sysinst, but you can use it to bootstrap
> a system with a bit of fiddling.  Look on ftp.netbsd.org under
> pub/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-1.5.3/pmax/binary/kernel for that kernel.

Yeah, I tried the one from 1.3.3, it gave the same tftp error.

> If you're using NFS instead of disk, you should be able to compile
> up a relatively small -current kernel without too much trouble.  Let
> me know if you want a hand doing this.

I've built a netbsd-3 kernel that's barely a meg, set up for NFS instead of
disk... but it's still not cutting it.

-Sean