[Simh] Panic while attempting to boot a NetBSD ISO
Mark Pizzolato
Mark at infocomm.com
Sun Feb 7 13:04:32 EST 2016
Hi Gregg,
I'm not sure what you want me to look at. Please be specific.
- Mark
On Sunday, February 7, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> Hello!
> I'm still not certain what's going on here. But I downloaded a copy of the last
> known release from the website, and built it. And then followed the
> procedures. In this case it was to try and boot an image of 5.1.3 and it
> worked. I'm going to need to spend more time on this.
>
> Mark when you have the time can you look into what might be going on
> there? (Your choice of hosting OS)
> -----
> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
> "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again."
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 9:21 AM, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
> > Just to confirm latest git src (MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Beta
> > git commit id: 1cd89258) also works fine for me.
> >
> > Another random thought, can you confirm you can read the contents of
> > the ISO image OK outside of simh? It should have an ISO9660 partition
> > of 1331200.
> >
> > [I *hate* to be of those who ends up sending two emails when they
> > should just have waited and sent one, but I've never built simh
> > outside of pkgsrc before and didn't know if it would Just Work.... It
> > Did :)]
> >
> > David
> >
> > On 7 February 2016 at 14:12, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
> >> On the offchance it helps I've attached my config for booting
> >> NetBSD-7 on the stock simh-3.9.0nb4 from pkgsrc, and a boot via 'b
> >> dua1'. Maybe if you posted your .simh file and the output again we
> >> might be able to work out whats up? I could also try the latest git
> >> source to see if my config still works there...
> >>
> >> % cat netbsd-7.0.simh
> >> load -r /usr/pkg/share/simh/ka655x.bin set cpu 256m set rq0 ra90 at
> >> rq0 netbsd-7.0.ra90 set rq1 cdrom at rq1 NetBSD-7.0-vax.iso set rq2
> >> ra92 at rq2 pkgsrc.ra92 at xq0 wm0 boot cpu
> >>
> >> # simh-vax netbsd-7.0.simh
> >>
> >> VAX simulator V3.9-0
> >> libpcap version 1.3.0
> >> Eth: opened OS device wm0
> >>
> >>
> >> KA655X-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 dua1
> >> (BOOT/R5:0 DUA1
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2..
> >> -DUA1
> >> 1..0..
> >>
> >>
> >>>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.11] <<
> >>>> Press any key to abort autoboot 4
> >> 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.
> >> 3098208+172992 [229904+219992]=0x38cb9c
> >> Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
> >> 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
> >> 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 7.0 (GENERIC.201509250726Z)
> >> MicroVAX 3800/3900
> >> total memory = 255 MB
> >> avail memory = 243 MB
> >> kern.module.path=/stand/vax/7.0/modules
> >> mainbus0 (root)
> >> cpu0 at mainbus0: KA655, CVAX microcode rev 6 Firmware rev 83 lance
> >> at mainbus0 not configured
> >> uba0 at mainbus0: Q22
> >> dz1 at uba0 csr 160100 vec 304 ipl 17
> >> mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 17
> >> mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 5 model 3
> >> mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
> >> uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770 ipl 17
> >> mscpbus1 at uda0: version 3 model 3
> >> mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
> >> qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 764 ipl 17: delqa, hardware address
> >> 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc
> >> rlc0 at uba0 csr 174400 vec 160 ipl 17
> >> rl0 at rlc0 drive 0: RL01, drive not loaded
> >> rl1 at rlc0 drive 1: RL01, drive not loaded
> >> rl2 at rlc0 drive 2: RL01, drive not loaded
> >> rl3 at rlc0 drive 3: RL01, drive not loaded
> >> ts0 at uba0 csr 172520 vec 224 ipl 17: TS11
> >> ts0: rev 0, extended features enabled, transport offline
> >> mt0 at mscpbus0 drive 0: TK50
> >> mt1 at mscpbus0 drive 1: TK50
> >> mt2 at mscpbus0 drive 2: TK50
> >> mt3 at mscpbus0 drive 3: TK50
> >> ra0 at mscpbus1 drive 0: RA90
> >> racd0 at mscpbus1 drive 1: RRD40
> >> ra1 at mscpbus1 drive 2: RA92
> >> rx0 at mscpbus1 drive 3: RX50
> >> ra0: size 2376153 sectors
> >> racd0: size 1331200 sectors
> >> ra1: size 2940951 sectors
> >> rx0: attempt to bring on line failed: unit offline (not mounted)
> >> (code 3, subco de 1) boot device: racd0 root on racd0a dumps on
> >> racd0b root file system type: cd9660 [...]
> >>
> >> On 7 February 2016 at 04:40, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>> Hello!
> >>> Same problem as before, again with the proper location for the CD as
> >>> the VAX emulation knows its there. The routines start as before then
> >>> at the prompt I enter boot dua1:. Then the simulation escapes back
> >>> to prompt for itself rather then a VAX prompt and that's where I'm
> stuck.
> >>>
> >>> Oh and this is all happening with the code retrieved from GIT about
> >>> now. I'm going to update the store and start all over again.
> >>> (Building
> >>> them.)
> >>> -----
> >>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the
> >>> Time Wars, time and again."
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 11:26 PM, Gregg Levine
> <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>> Hello!
> >>>> Okay I've tried again to bring things up. This time remembering to
> >>>> give it dua1: at the prompt instead of something else. It promptly
> >>>> complained. I'll try one more time this time with the image in the
> >>>> same directory as the boot script. I've also commented out the
> >>>> firmware blob since you've commented that its already included.
> >>>> -----
> >>>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the
> >>>> Time Wars, time and again."
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Mark Pizzolato <Mark at infocomm.com>
> wrote:
> >>>>> On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 10:07 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello!
> >>>>>> That's just it Mark. They aren't empty ones. I've downloaded
> >>>>>> three separate ISO images, 5.1.3 and then 5.1.4 and finally 5.1.5
> >>>>>> and placed them in their own directories.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> You mean that the selection of what to create is bollixed? It was
> >>>>>> supposed to create an empty disk image. Now what it says here:
> "RQ1:
> >>>>>> creating new file", it was suppose to use RQ0 for that.
> >>>>>> I suspect something is definitely wrong there.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> That was my point. Meanwhile, Wilm Boerhout <wilm at boerhout.nl>
> >>>>> points out the reason why the simulator halted (you tried to boot
> >>>>> from DUAL instead of DUA1). Given the 'RQ1L creating new file',
> >>>>> you'll get a different failure message trying to boot from an empty
> disk.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Looking ahead. I said that your attempt to connect XQ to wlan
> >>>>> would Probably be a problem when you get that far. For NetBSD
> >>>>> you're only interested in IP and none of the other DEC LAN
> >>>>> protocols, so 'attach xq NAT:' will probably meet your needs.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> Right now the computer is running Windows. The stuff for all of
> >>>>>> that is on a different disk, and I'll need to switch back.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> All this stuff works on Windows also. :-)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> I'll report more when that is happening.
> >>>>>> -----
> >>>>>> Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com "This signature fought the
> >>>>>> Time Wars, time and again."
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 12:31 AM, Mark Pizzolato
> >>>>>> <Mark at infocomm.com>
> >>>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>> > On Friday, February 5, 2016 at 9:15 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
> >>>>>> >> Hello!
> >>>>>> >> Okay here goes, I'm following these instructions:
> >>>>>> >> https://www.netbsd.org/ports/vax/emulator-howto.html
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > Well, the commands outlined at this link say:
> >>>>>> > load -r /usr/pkg/share/simh/ka655x.bin
> >>>>>> > set cpu 64m
> >>>>>> > set rq0 ra92
> >>>>>> > at rq0 netbsd.dsk
> >>>>>> > set rq1 cdrom
> >>>>>> > at rq1 /path/to/vaxcd.iso
> >>>>>> > at xq0 name-of-network-interface-on-host
> >>>>>> > boot cpu
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> >> And I'm getting this response:
> >>>>>> >> MicroVAX 3900 simulator V4.0-0 Beta git commit id: f03bae6c
> >>>>>> >> sim> do netbsd-boot
> >>>>>> >> RQ1: creating new file
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > This message suggests that:
> >>>>>> > at rq1 /path/to/vaxcd.iso isn't actually pointing at
> >>>>>> > the CDROM image, but has created a new empty
> >>>>>> disk image file
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> >> libpcap version 1.4.0
> >>>>>> >> Eth: opened OS device wlan0 - No description available
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > OK so far, but I think you'll eventually have trouble using a Wireless
> Device.
> >>>>>> That won't matter for now.
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> >> 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.
> >>>>>> >> >>>boot dual:
> >>>>>> >> (BOOT/R5:0 DUAL
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >>
> >>>>>> >> 2..
> >>>>>> >> ?41 DEVASSIGN, DUAL
> >>>>>> >> HALT instruction, PC: 00000C1A (MOVL (R11),SP)
> >>>>>> >> sim>
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > Booting from an empty CDROM image isn't likely to get too far...
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> >> The script I wrote follows what it says on the site, except
> >>>>>> >> for the CD-ROM file, and the network device, and the BIN file it
> needs.
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > The "load -r ..." command isn't necessary anymore. The ROM
> >>>>>> > image is built
> >>>>>> in to the binary, but what you did shouldn't be bad.
> >>>>>> >
> >>>>>> > - Mark
> >>>>>
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