OpenBSD VAX on SIMH Panic

"Siju George" <[email protected]> Wed, 10 Jan 2007 03:47:26 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.vax
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

I got this following mail from a dear friend reporting a panic.
It will be great if some one can help him.
I think he is not subscribed to vax@
So I have CCed him too.

Thankyou somuch

Siju
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Marco Mascagni <[email protected]>
Date: Jan 10, 2007 1:30 AM
Subject: [BSD-INDIA] OpenBSD on VAX using SIMH
To: [email protected]




Hi,
i' m trying to install OpenBSD 4.0 (I tried 3.9) on simh, but after
install I got this message:
rootdev=0x900 rrootdev=0x900 rawdev=0x902
filesystem type 0 not known.. assuming ffs
panic: cannot mount root
Stopped at      _main+0x440:    movl    _mountlist, r0
RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC!
DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING THIS WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION!
ddb> trace
panic: cannot mount root
Stack traceback :
_start+0x519(0x3ae120)
ddb> ps
   PID   PPID   PGRP    UID  S       FLAGS  WAIT       COMMAND
     2      0      0      0  3    0x100204  pftm       pfpurge
     1      0      0      0  3         0x4  initexec   swapper
*    0     -1      0      0  7     0x80204             swapper

this is config file I'm using
set cpu 256M
load -r ka655x.bin
at nvr nvram.bin
;
; vitally important interrupt timing workaround
;deposit rq qtime 1000000
deposit rq qtime 100
;
; boot disk
set rq0 ra92
at rq0 ra0-ra92-openbsd38-root.disk
;
; installation CD
set rq1 cdrom
at -r rq1 vax38.iso
;
; install floppy
set rq2 cdrom
at -r rq2 floppy38.fs
;
; /usr/src
set rq3 ra92
at rq3 /dev/null
;
; network config
set xq mac=08-00-2B-C0-01-FF
at xq0 eth0
;
; terminal lines
;set dz lines=8
;at dz 2332
set dz disable
;
set rl disable
set ts disable
;
;
; uncomment below after installation
;
; autoboot
;dep bdr 0
;
;set cpu conhalt
;;set cpu simhalt
;
;boot cpu
;
;exit

Thank You very much.


Marco Mascagni