Re: Kernel config for Sun 3/50

Havard Eidnes <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Jan 2023 20:00:22 +0100 (CET)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sun3
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> I commented out the kernel size check code and built a minimal kernel=
,
> it does boot and tries to go into single-user mode but only after a
> very long time . After that, things start crashing, complaining about=

> swap space. I'm not sure at what point in the boot sequence the swap
> gets activated, but I don't see any indication on my NFS server that
> the swap file is mounted or accessed. I tried swapctl -A from the
> shell prompt but that crashed as well. I've attached a boot log below=
.=


It doesn't look like you supplied any boot space in bootparams?

I only see this:

> [   8.6800250] root on le0
> [   8.7000250] nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
> [  11.7900250] nfs_boot: client_addr=3D192.168.0.32 (RARP from 192.16=
8.0.12)
> [  20.9200250] nfs_boot: server_addr=3D192.168.0.12
> [  20.9300250] nfs_boot: hostname=3Dsun350
> [  21.1400250] nfs_boot: gateway=3D192.168.0.1
> [  21.1500250] nfs_boot: my_mask=3D255.255.255.0
> [  28.0900250] root on 192.168.0.12:/export/root/netbsd

and nothing about swap.

Fix this, and the probability of a startup succeeding should
increase.

Regards,

- H=E5vard