[Simh] VAX NetBSD 4.0

[Howard M. Harte]

It turns out that re-downloading the vaxcd.ISO images fixed the problem.

Thanks for the help.

-Howard


On Sep 17, 2008, at 8:46 AM, "Howard M. Harte" <hharte at hartetechnologies.com 
 > wrote:

> Hello Bob,
>
> Thanks for trying it. The precomp binaries was a typo, I used the ore-
> compiled binaries from the trailing-edge site. I will try again using
> the configuration commands exactly as you describe below.  I was
> running under WinXP, and it looks like you are too.
>
> -Howard
>
>
> On Sep 17, 2008, at 7:15 AM, Bob Supnik <bob at supnik.org> wrote:
>
>> I am unable to reproduce this problem with the binaries that are on
>> the
>> SimH web site. Here is the log of booting NetBSD 4.0 on SimH 3.8-0.
>> The
>> behavior is identical on 3.2-3, 3.6-0, 3.7-0, 3.7-3, and 3.8-0.
>>
>> I do not know what the orecomp binaries are, how they are compiled,  
>> or
>> what errors they may contain.
>>
>> C:\Media\simbin>vax
>>
>> VAX simulator V3.8-0
>> sim> set rq0 ra82
>> sim> set rq2 cdrom
>> sim> att rq0 foo.dsk
>> sim> att -e rq2 vaxcd-4.0.iso
>> sim> boot cpu
>> Loading boot code from ka655x.bin
>>
>> ←[c
>> KA655-B V5.3, VMB 2.7
>> Performing normal system tests.
>> 40..39..38..37..36..35..34..33..32..31..30..29..28..27..26..25..
>> 24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..14..13..12..11..10..09..
>> 08..07..06..05..04..03..
>> Tests completed.
>>>>> b dua2
>> (BOOT/R5:0 DUA2
>>
>>
>>
>> 2..
>> -DUA2
>> 1..0..
>>
>>
>>>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.11 Sun Dec 16 01:11:56 PST 2007] <<
>>>> Press any key to abort autoboot 0
>> getdisklabel: no disk label
>> nfs_open: must mount first.
>> open netbsd.vax: No such file or directory
>>> boot netbsd
>> getdisklabel: no disk label
>> nfs_open: must mount first.
>> 2560300+73856=0x283438
>> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
>> 2005,
>> 2006, 2007
>> 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 4.0 (INSTALL) #0: Sun Dec 16 01:50:28 PST 2007
>> builds at wb25:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/vax/200712160005Z-obj/
>> hom
>> e/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/INSTALL
>> MicroVAX 3800/3900
>> cpu: KA655, CVAX microcode rev 6 Firmware rev 83
>> total memory = 16328 KB
>> avail memory = 12892 KB
>> mainbus0 (root)
>> ibus0 at mainbus0
>> uba0 at ibus0: Q22
>> dz1 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 304 ipl 15
>> mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 15
>> mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 5 model 3
>> mscpbus0: DMA burst size s