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trashcan man | 1 Nov 2003 18:40
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booting ibm pps 830.

i have a 'supposed to be working' mainboard from ibm personal power system
830.  it does not have parity memory and cache module.  after connecting
everything, it boots into SMS and passes all the tests.  however,
for some reason, it's unable to boot netbsd.  i downloaded netbsd-1.6.1/prep
and tried to boot from cd.  the machine completely ignored me.  i guess
either the cd is not bootable, or pps needs drive supporting 512B sectors.
then i tried booting from floppies.  every one of them hang pps, clearing
the lowest ~seven lines of text with white space.  then, i tried dd'ing
floppy images onto hard disk.  the result was the same.  any idea what
might be wrong?
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Izumi Tsutsui | 2 Nov 2003 00:08
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Re: mk48txx(4) tod clock driver cleanup

In article <031101024559.M0119148 <at> mirage.ceres.dti.ne.jp>
I wrote:

> I'd like to commit the following changes to cleanup
> MI mk48txx(4) tod clock driver:
> http://www.ceres.dti.ne.jp/~tsutsui/netbsd/mk48txx-20031031.diff

Committed.

> I have checked news68k, newsmips, sparc and sparc64 (with mkclock) are
> working and I confirm that all GENERIC kernels using mk48txx compile.
> mvme68k, mvmeppc and prep are not tested (I don't have these machines),
> but all changes are trivial anyway.

If you have any problem (especially on untested machines),
please report via send-pr(1).
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui <at> ceres.dti.ne.jp
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trashcan man | 2 Nov 2003 01:05
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[ot] anyone experienced with ibm personal power series 830?

oh dear.  seems i killed this thing.  what i did was to update
firmware to the latest (v1.10, from p8x0_110.exe, downloaded
from ibm ftp site) version.  now, during boot, when displaying
the memory icon it makes a short beep and hangs, w/o any error icon.
can anybody experienced with this hardware tell me, what should
i do now?  i guess nobody at ibm tested it without parity memory
and without l2 cache module.  should i get parity simm's,
or a good soldering iron and memory flasher?

silly me.  before updating, i got into a firmware command line
and made it load new firmware into memory and jump to it's entry
point.  it hanged in the exact same way it does now.  i thought,
'well, it tries to reinit some device that does not like it'...
and flashed it into rom.

sorry for the offtopic.
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