[rescue] newest rescue (failure/success/failure)

[David Brownlee]

On 13 February 2016 at 15:24, Walter Belgers <walter+rescue at belgers.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a short update on the 3/470.
>
> I have not been able to get the graphics board to work, despite the contact
> spray and trying to get the connectors to fit well. Even though $150 for a new
> framebuffer might be  cheap , it is not something I am willing to pay.
>
> I have done something else though. The boot proms were version 2.9.3 and
> version 3.0 is available from sun3arc.org. So I borrowed an EPROM programmer,
> spent half a day getting to understand how to program EPROMs and about all
> kinds of obscure formats for storing images. But it worked:
>
> Sun Workstation, Model Sun-3/400 Series.
> ROM Rev 3.0, 48MB memory installed, Serial #1840.
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:6:E7:72, Host ID 41000730.
>
> I also made an image of the old EPROMs and sent them to Heiko Krupp of
> sun3arc.org. (He already mailed me he is going to put them online.)
>
> I should now be able to boot from CD-ROM. I was planning on installing NetBSD
> to have a bit more modern OS on there. But of course, why make a CD-ROM if I
> have network?
>
> First I tried to write the NetBSD miniroot to the swap partition and boot from
> there (I could use the running OS for it). All I get is an exeception though:
>
> sun3 # dd if=miniroot.fs of=/dev/rsd0b obs=32k
> 12288+0 records in
> 192+0 records out
> sun3 # sync
> sun3 # sync
> sun3 # sync
> sun3 #
> Abort at 0xF8004CAC.
>> b sd(0,0,1) -s
> Boot: sd(0,0,1) -s
>
> Exception 0x2C at 0x00004000.
>>
>
>
> I then tried to boot over the network. I set up mountd, nfsd, rpcbind,
> bootparamd, rarpd, inetd/tftpd and put all the files in the correct position
> (most importantly the sun3x ramdisk kernel as  netbsd ).
>
>>b ie() -s
> Boot: ie(0,0,0) -s
> Using IP Address 10.1.0.88 = 0A010058
> Booting from tftp server at 10.1.0.1 = 0A010001
> Downloaded 23756 bytes from tftp server.
>
>>> NetBSD/sun3 netboot [1.13]
> Using IP Address 10.1.0.88 = 0A010058
> netboot: trying netbsd
> open netbsd: Unknown error: code 60
>
> At this moment, it hangs. It is talking to the server via UDP port 111
> (portmapper) and just after that, it tries to connect to the same server on
> UDP port 0 (!). I have on clue what is going on here.
>
>
> A while later I read something about the swap space needing to be in the first
> 1GB of the disk. Just as an experiment, I tried to put the miniroot on the
> second disk and boot from there. I was happy when I saw the kernel being
> loaded but shortly after I got a panic. Sigh. At this moment I have had it
> with the beast and stick with SunOS 4.1.1 for the moment.
>
> Walter.
>
>
>>b sd(0,10,1) -s
> Boot: sd(0,10,1) -s
>>> NetBSD/sun3 ufsboot [1.13]
> ufsboot: trying netbsd
> open netbsd: No such file or directory
> ufsboot: trying netbsd.old
> open netbsd.old: No such file or directory
> ufsboot: trying netbsd.sun3x
> 1574372+74836 [148544+138212]=0x1d8e70
> starting program at 0x4000
> console is ttya
> 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 (INSTALL3X.201509250726Z)
> Model: sun3x 470
> fpu: mc68882
> total memory = 49152 KB
> avail memory = 46600 KB
> kern.module.path=/stand/sun3/7.0/modules
> mainbus0 (root)
> obio0 at mainbus0
> iommu0 at obio0 addr 0x60000000
> memerr0 at obio0 addr 0x61001000 ipl 7: (ECC memory)
> intreg0 at obio0 addr 0x61001400
> zsc0 at obio0 addr 0x62000000 ipl 6: (softpri 3)
> kbd0 at zsc0 channel 0: baud rate 1200
> zsc0:  channel 1 not configured
> zsc1 at obio0 addr 0x62002000 ipl 6: (softpri 3)
> zstty0 at zsc1 channel 0 (console i/o)
> zstty1 at zsc1 channel 1
> eeprom0 at obio0 addr 0x64000000
> oclock0 at obio0 addr 0x64002000 ipl 5: intersil7170
> ie0 at obio0 addr 0x65000000 ipl 3: macaddr 08:00:20:06:e7:72
> vme0 at mainbus0: (A16/D16)
> vme1 at mainbus0: (A16/D32)
> vme2 at mainbus0: (A24/D16)
> si0 at vme2 addr 0x200000 ipl 2 vect 0x40: options=0xf
> trap type=0x0, code=0x72d, v=0xfb3fc018
> pid = 0, lid = 1, pc = F80A7DEA, ps = 2504, sfc = 1, dfc = 1
> Registers:
>              0        1        2        3        4        5        6        7
> dreg: 00000040 F80A7A1A F82D0480 F819BE34 F813328C F82D061C F813328C 00000002
> areg: 00000040 F8184FF0 FB3FC000 F82DE000 F8114C80 F817CA9C F819BCE8 F7FFFFFC
> [...]

The next line after the si0 should have been something of the form:
'scsibus0 at si0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target'. Its possible that it
could be having problems with your SCSI controller. I assume its a
separate card rather than onboard? Would you be able to pull it out to
retest. Alternatively I've just built a netbsd-7 INSTALL3X kernel with
the si controllers disabled at
http://sync.absd.org/sun3/netbsd-INSTALL3X-NO-SI.gz

As to running SunOS 4.1.1_U1 - whether or not you ever put NetBSD on
it, the machine deserves to have at least one disk with a 4.1.1_U1
install for it :)