NetBSD on Sun's Motorola 68020 (sun3) and 68030 (sun3x) based machines (NetBSD/sun3)

scotts | 12 Jul 2002 07:50

1.6 Beta snapshot

Below is the boot messages of the miniroot from 
releng.netbsd.org:pub/NetBSD-daily/200207080000/sun3/

It appears that init is missing from the miniroot.fs.
Has anyone encounter this error before?
Is there another explaination besides the miniroot.fs is 
corrupt and missing init?

I have three of the old beasts I am attempting resurect 
from the ashes.  

-scotts

>b sd(,,1) -s
Boot: sd(0,0,1) -s
>> NetBSD/sun3 ufsboot [1.11]
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
846036+129716 [77968+54947]=0x10ec80
starting program at 0x4000
console is ttya
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
    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 1.6_BETA4 (INSTALL3X) #0: Wed Jul 10 04:23:30 UTC 2002

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Nathan J. Williams | 12 Jul 2002 17:28

Re: 1.6 Beta snapshot

scotts <at> smallie.net writes:

> It appears that init is missing from the miniroot.fs.
> Has anyone encounter this error before?
> Is there another explaination besides the miniroot.fs is 
> corrupt and missing init?

Hmm. I just tried booting the miniroot of that date, and it works fine
on my 3/80. Can you get a checksum (md5 preferred) of the miniroot
image, from another machine perhaps?

        - Nathan

scotts | 12 Jul 2002 19:31

Re: 1.6 Beta snapshot

Nathan,

The md5 checksums below are computed on my boot host, a Duron 950
openbsd machine.

MD5 (miniroot.fs.gz) = 0d54a543c41a9ae48c7e7f5dadf656c4
MD5 (/netbsd/miniroot.fs.1.6) = b35b788464634f56123862ebb576d0d9

-scotts

> scotts <at> smallie.net writes:
> 
> > It appears that init is missing from the miniroot.fs.
> > Has anyone encounter this error before?
> > Is there another explaination besides the miniroot.fs is 
> > corrupt and missing init?
> 
> Hmm. I just tried booting the miniroot of that date, and it works fine
> on my 3/80. Can you get a checksum (md5 preferred) of the miniroot
> image, from another machine perhaps?
> 
>         - Nathan
> 

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scotts | 13 Jul 2002 09:17

Re: 1.6 Beta snapshot

I have downloaded another miniroot from 7-12-2002.  I have
observed similar behavior.  The kernel on the miniroot fs 
crash while looking for init.

I think I am going to try another machine.  I have three Sun 3/80s.
The was the first one to boot up to the > prompt.

Below is capture that includes the writing of the miniroot to
the swap partition.  

-scotts

ssh: ls /mnt
D:0755  2    0    0     512 Jul 13 06:54 .
D:0755  8    0    0     512 Jul 10 04:27 ..
F:0644  1    0    0 1214168 Jul 10 20:06 netbsd.1.6
L:0755  1    0    0      10 Jul 12 17:36 netbsd -> netbsd.1.6
F:0444  1    0    0 12582912 Jul 11 17:14 miniroot.fs.1.6
F:0444  1    0    0 12582912 Jul 12 06:10 miniroot.1.5.2
F:0444  1    0    0 1303418 Jul 12 06:30 netbsd.1.5.2
F:0644  1    0    0 12582912 Jul 13 06:54 miniroot.1.6.20020712
ssh: dd if=/mnt/miniroot.1.6.20020712 of=/dev/rsd0b bs=8k
1536+0 records in
1536+0 records out
12582912 bytes transferred in 68.810 secs (182864 bytes/sec)
ssh: halt
Jul 10 04:40:15 halt: halted by root
 signal 15
ssh: syncing disks... done
halted.

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Old Stuff | 19 Jul 2002 19:17

Old Sun stuff needing new homes....

Of possible interest to NetBSD/Sun collectors.

The following stuff is in Arlington, Mass, and I'm not interested in
shipping it.  See http://www.ultimate.com/phil/stuff/ for the most
current list of what's available, and what I'm interested in...

Sun SPARC price list (eff. May 19. 1992)

SunOS 3? installation                   8.5x11  P/N 800-1512-05 (9/86)
SunOS 3? writing device drivers         8.5x11  Copyr 1986

SunOS 4 DOCSET;
					lbs	box size
	SunOS 4.0 Beginners             6       10x12x4
	SunOS 4.0 Prog Guides           21      10x12x9.5
	SunOS 4.0 Reference Manuals     20      10x12x10
	SunOS 4.0 Sys Admin             10      10x12x5
	SunOS 4.0.3 Upd                 6       10x9x3

SunOS 4.1.2 install             LL	in binder
SunOS 4.1.2 ref pages          		8.5x11  800-6641-1300 12/91

User's manual for the Sun-2 VME-Multibus Adapter Board Rev A
        1 June 1985
        P/N 800-1193-01

VMS to MULTIBUS ADAPTER BOARD CONFIGURATION PROCEDURES
        Part II 950-1065
        Sept 28, 1985
        Revision 50

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Ronald Cotoni | 19 Jul 2002 21:39

Re: Old Sun stuff needing new homes....

what is the sun pc sbus card?

On Fri, 19 Jul 2002, Old Stuff wrote:

> Of possible interest to NetBSD/Sun collectors.
>
> The following stuff is in Arlington, Mass, and I'm not interested in
> shipping it.  See http://www.ultimate.com/phil/stuff/ for the most
> current list of what's available, and what I'm interested in...
>
> Sun SPARC price list (eff. May 19. 1992)
>
> SunOS 3? installation                   8.5x11  P/N 800-1512-05 (9/86)
> SunOS 3? writing device drivers         8.5x11  Copyr 1986
>
> SunOS 4 DOCSET;
> 					lbs	box size
> 	SunOS 4.0 Beginners             6       10x12x4
> 	SunOS 4.0 Prog Guides           21      10x12x9.5
> 	SunOS 4.0 Reference Manuals     20      10x12x10
> 	SunOS 4.0 Sys Admin             10      10x12x5
> 	SunOS 4.0.3 Upd                 6       10x9x3
>
> SunOS 4.1.2 install             LL	in binder
> SunOS 4.1.2 ref pages          		8.5x11  800-6641-1300 12/91
>
> User's manual for the Sun-2 VME-Multibus Adapter Board Rev A
>         1 June 1985
>         P/N 800-1193-01
>

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Dennis Grevenstein | 20 Jul 2002 13:56

Picon

Re: Old Sun stuff needing new homes....

Ronald Cotoni wrote:
> 
> what is the sun pc sbus card?

Something like these cards here:

605-1574

It's an sbus card with an Intel (or AMD) CPU on it  that lets you run
Windows on your SPARC workstation, just like the newer SUNPCi cards.
You need special software that is really hard to find.
You can also argue if it's worth using it as it's just a 486 or
very early 586 (if it's AMD). It will run run Windows 3.something.
Maybe you could play some old games, but Sun only thought of things like
MS Office for sure, so don't expect that it's really compatible with
any PC software.

mfg
Dennis

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Rick Sustek | 26 Jul 2002 20:51

Picon

Re: Next of kin needed?

Let's see, if four of us respond to this scam, we could
get the whole 100% of the $20.5M, startup an engineering
effort to revive the Sun3 line and bring it up
to current standards....

;=)

Rick

Rick Kelly | 26 Jul 2002 20:51

Re: Next of kin needed?

Rick Sustek said:

>Let's see, if four of us respond to this scam, we could
>get the whole 100% of the $20.5M, startup an engineering
>effort to revive the Sun3 line and bring it up
>to current standards....

>;=)

Now there's a thought. A 3/80 with a 68060 would be nice.

--

-- 
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Michael Thompson | 26 Jul 2002 23:08

Re: Next of kin needed?

At 12:51 PM 7/26/02 -0600, Rick Kelly wrote:
>Rick Sustek said:
>
>>Let's see, if four of us respond to this scam, we could
>>get the whole 100% of the $20.5M, startup an engineering
>>effort to revive the Sun3 line and bring it up
>>to current standards....
>
>>;=)
>
>Now there's a thought. A 3/80 with a 68060 would be nice.
>
>-- 
>Rick Kelly  rmk <at> rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com

Only one 68060?

Michael Thompson
E-Mail: M_Thompson <at> IDS.net

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