24 Dec
2001
24 Dec
'01
8:46 a.m.
Hello,
Just my 2 cents:
It's only the 4000/9x that gets so confused by the NetBSD booter that it
won't boot unattended anymore. It will throw a "SYS"-error (0200).
My 4000/60 is happy with NetBSD, booting all the way to whatever OS i
throw at it. Just don't POWER DOWN your terminal while connected.
This will be interpreted as a break on the console line, which throws
you into the console monitor, just like a HALT.
Disconnect your terminal.
As a proof, this email is sent to the list via my 4000/60, running
NetBSD without a console terminal attached. (Some proof, i know ... 8-)
The 4000/vlc works just as well.
To get the 4000/60 autobooting you have to have
SET BOOT dka0 (or whatever your system disk is)
SET HALT 1
SET BFLG 0
Most NetBSD's up to 1.5.2 garble the "HALT" setting on shutdown, so you
should check this ("SHOW HALT"). Valid values are:
3: Machine halts on powerup (Manual boot)
2: Automatic reboot
1: Automatic restart
0: same as 2
"Automatic restart" is usually the default, since it tells the VAX to
try to quickly recover from e.g. a power failure. Try 0 or 2 as well.
If all this does not help, you might have a dead battery. But you should
get some error on powerup then.
Hope this helps
Michael Schneider (ms)
On Mon, 2001-12-24 at 20:36, Robert Schaefer wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doc" <doc(a)mdrconsult.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 01:52 PM
Subject: Re: More... Re: VS4000 hardware questions
--
Michael Schneider email: ms(a)silke.rt.schwaben.de
Germany http://www.vaxcluster.de
People disagree with me. I just ignore them.
(Linus Torvalds)
It looks like you're saying that, having booted NetBSD, I can no longer
run the VS4000 headless? Right now, set to serial console, it won't even
post until I power up the serial terminal. And on this box, powering
down the VT420 is a guaranteed halt. Have I misconfigured something, or
am I stuck with this?
The 3100 m38 autoboots NetBSD quite happily with no console attached.
Since the hardware notes at NetBSD didn't give any warnings, I sort
ofexpected the same.
From what I have heard, seen, and possibly
mis-remembered or -understood,
having once run NetBSD on a VaxStation 4000-90 (and
possibly similar models
such as the -60 an -vlc) you will need to manually enter 'boot' at the
>>>
console prompt, as the SYS subsystem fails a minor (possibly checksum) test.
I haven't experimented with this much at all, other than a test-boot of VMS
to see if it would correct whatever might be wrong. I have not attempted to
set any kind of automatic boot/halt/whatever flag to see if it really *does*
halt the boot process. Chuck McManis may have a better idea of what is
going on, ISTR he was looking into it. There are a number of knowlegable
people on port-vax(a)netbsd.org who will have better answers than I.
I'm nearly in a position to bring my VAX cluster online (VAX 6000-320,
VAXstation 4000-90, VAXstation 3100-40, & soon a VAX 4000-200) so I will be
more interested in making the m90 boot headless in the Not Too Distant
future, and I'll probably take a look at the code myself. Not that this is
any indication of my programming skills (or lack thereof!), but more eyes
can't hurt anything.
Doc
Bob