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Steffen.Pelzetter | 1 Mar 2005 10:42

No X- Server for my AS4100 on Port Alpha

Hello,

I've downloaded iso image for the alpha- port on netbsd 2.0
cause I want to find the best os for the future.

So I've installed it on my AlphaServer 4100 
(DigitalServer 7305 correctly).
At first the are some bugs in the installation programm.
So the verbose and the "silent" installation are switched,
the root system is mounted read- only after installation and
some other minor problems.

Now my system seemed to be installed and I tried to configure
X.

But there is nothing, no xf86config, XF68Config or xf86cfg.
I have re-installed the xserver.tgz with no success.

I think there are no X- server and tools on the CD.

Please help, I need to have a running system at the end
of the month. If you can't solve the problem I need to
install linux, which is not my favorite one.

Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
Steffen Pelzetter
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Tobias Nygren | 1 Mar 2005 12:42

Re: No X- Server for my AS4100 on Port Alpha

On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:42:10 +0100
Steffen.Pelzetter <at> nexans.com wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've downloaded iso image for the alpha- port on netbsd 2.0
> cause I want to find the best os for the future.
> 
> So I've installed it on my AlphaServer 4100 
> (DigitalServer 7305 correctly).
> At first the are some bugs in the installation programm.
> So the verbose and the "silent" installation are switched,
> the root system is mounted read- only after installation and
> some other minor problems.
> 
> Now my system seemed to be installed and I tried to configure
> X.
> 
> But there is nothing, no xf86config, XF68Config or xf86cfg.
> I have re-installed the xserver.tgz with no success.
> 
> I think there are no X- server and tools on the CD.
> 
> Please help, I need to have a running system at the end
> of the month. If you can't solve the problem I need to
> install linux, which is not my favorite one.
> 
> 
> Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best Regards
> Steffen Pelzetter
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Falk Stern | 2 Mar 2005 08:09
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Kernel Panics with fxp on -current and 2.0

Hi,

yesterday I inserted 2 fxp(4) cards in my DEC Alphastation 200 4/233.

I had to remove the gfx card for both to fit. Booting over serial console
works well but after inserting the fxp cards I get this: 

>>>boot 
(boot dka0.0.0.6.0 -flags a)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.6.0 is a valid boot block
reading 14 blocks from dka0.0.0.6.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 1f2000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 1c00
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1e4000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code

NetBSD/alpha 2.0 FFS Primary Bootstrap
Jumping to entry point...

NetBSD/alpha 2.0 Secondary Bootstrap, Revision 1.13
(builds <at> build, Tue Nov 30 20:47:48 UTC 2004)

VMS PAL rev: 0x1000000010538
OSF PAL rev: 0x100000002012e
Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded.

Boot flags: a
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Dieter | 4 Mar 2005 11:37

Re: Vector allocation failed

> > Okay, found a DEC document on the web that says the one for the IDE 
> > controller
> > can be ignored for the 164lx.
> >
> > But the USB controller one remains.  :-(
> 
> I think you can actually ignore the USB controller error, too.  I seem 
> to recall those devices don't use PCI interrupt, but come in via the 
> ISA PIC.

Are you sure about that?  I've been poking around and it sure looks
like the USB controller is using PCI interrupts.

I couldn't get SRM to print out any numbers in the 9a range, but poking around
in arch/alpha/pci/pci_eb164.c indicates that 0x9a maps to PCI interrupt 10.
USB activity hits eb164_iointr().  I pulled the SCSI board that also
interrupts at 10 and SRM no longer complains.  (Unfortunately this
didn't fix my USB problems.)

EB164_MAX_IRQ is 24, so there shouldn't be a shortage?
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Michiel Buddingh' | 6 Mar 2005 18:25
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netboot receives empty nfs root path from bootp server

Hello,
I'm trying to coax an AlphaServer 300 4/266 into netbooting (after various 
less gentle attempts to coax the thing into booting from its cd-rom drive 
and floppy disk drive have failed), and it's working surprisingly well, 
except that the second stage bootloader reports an empty string as the nfs 
root path, rather than the rootpath I set up in /etc/bootptab.  
Unsurprisingly, it fails to load the netbsd kernel, and booting stops.

Has anyone encountered this particular problem before?  Is there another way 
to pass the nfs root path to netboot (say, by a flag I can conveniently set 
from the SRM console)?  Is there a mailing list perhaps better suited to 
questions like mine? :)

I'll include my /etc/bootptab here, although it certainly _looks_ correct to 
me:

dummy:\
        :ht=ether:\
        :ha=0000F8236650:\
        :sm=255.255.255.0:\
        :lg=192.168.1.5:\
        :ip=192.168.1.10:\
        :hn:\
        :bf=boot.netbsd:\
        :bs=auto:\
        :rp=/export/k/:\
        :vm=rfc1048:

Any help, hints, even grumpy dismissals of *obvious* syntax errors in my 
bootptab file will be appreciated :)
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Jochen Kunz | 6 Mar 2005 18:52
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Re: netboot receives empty nfs root path from bootp server

On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 17:25:43 +0000
"Michiel Buddingh'" <schrijfmenietopditadres <at> hotmail.com> wrote:

> Any help, hints, even grumpy dismissals of *obvious* syntax errors in
> my bootptab file will be appreciated :)
Maybe "vm=auto" instead of "vm=rfc1048"?
Use dhcpd(8) instead of bootpd(8)?
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Michiel Buddingh' | 6 Mar 2005 21:56
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Re: netboot receives empty nfs root path from bootp server

Jochen Kunz wrote:
>Maybe "vm=auto" instead of "vm=rfc1048"?

That worked, even though I read somewhere that SRM 7.0 requires strict 
rfc1048 behaviour.

>Use dhcpd(8) instead of bootpd(8)?

That fixed the problem.  Thanks a lot :)

regards,
Michiel

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Jim | 9 Mar 2005 03:19
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no prompt for DHCP during sysinst

I'm trying to install NetBSD 2.0 on my MiataGL (PWS 600au).

All goes fine until I select FTP as the installation media.

I see the "Which device shall I use? [tlp0]:" prompt, select the
default; ditto for "Network media type [autoselect]:".

At that point the installation docs
(http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#inst-ftp-dhcp) say I
should get a prompt for DHCP (which I want to select).  But I get no
such prompt.  Instead it goes directly to "Your DNS domain".

"ifconfig tlp0" says:

tlp0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
address: 01:23:45:67:89:ab
media: Ethernet autoselect instance 1 (none)

(address changed to protect the innocent)

I didn't see dhclient anywhere in the filesystem.  Am I missing
something here?

Thanks in advance for any help,

Jim

	
		
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Sean Davis | 9 Mar 2005 03:22

Re: no prompt for DHCP during sysinst

On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:19:17PM -0800, Jim wrote:
> I'm trying to install NetBSD 2.0 on my MiataGL (PWS 600au).
> 
> All goes fine until I select FTP as the installation media.
> 
> I see the "Which device shall I use? [tlp0]:" prompt, select the
> default; ditto for "Network media type [autoselect]:".
> 
> At that point the installation docs
> (http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#inst-ftp-dhcp) say I
> should get a prompt for DHCP (which I want to select).  But I get no
> such prompt.  Instead it goes directly to "Your DNS domain".

FWIW, I saw the same behavior when installing 2.99.16/sparc with sysinst.
But not 2.99.16/i386 or 2.0/i386; those do DHCP just fine...

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Jim | 9 Mar 2005 03:29
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Re: no prompt for DHCP during sysinst

Hmm...could be this:

# ls /sbin/dhclient
ls: /sbin/dhclient: No such file or directory

Then according to:
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/distrib/utils/sysinst/net.c?rev=1.105&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

#define DHCLIENT_EX "/sbin/dhclient"
[...]
	if (!file_mode_match(DHCLIENT_EX, S_IFREG))
		return 0;

So, is this a known issue that dhclient is not part of the installation
filesystem for 2.0/alpha?  How can I proceed?

Thanks,
Jim

--- Sean Davis <dive-nb <at> endersgame.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 06:19:17PM -0800, Jim wrote:
> > I'm trying to install NetBSD 2.0 on my MiataGL (PWS 600au).
> > 
> > All goes fine until I select FTP as the installation media.
> > 
> > I see the "Which device shall I use? [tlp0]:" prompt, select the
> > default; ditto for "Network media type [autoselect]:".
> > 
> > At that point the installation docs
> > (http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/chap-exinst.html#inst-ftp-dhcp) say
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