NetBSD Problem Report #5634

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Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 17:52:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: cregister@dol.net
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: Problem loading miniroot/MicroVax 3500
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>Number:         5634
>Category:       port-vax
>Synopsis:       Problem loading miniroot/MicroVax 3500
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-vax-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jun 20 18:05:00 +0000 1998
>Closed-Date:    Tue Jan 05 15:03:51 +0000 1999
>Last-Modified:  Tue Jan 05 15:17:59 +0000 1999
>Originator:     Chris Register
>Release:        1.2, 1.2G, 1.3A
>Organization:
>Environment:
?
>Description:
Here's my setup ...

Microvax 3500 with a KSQFA connected to a R400X cabinet which contains 4 RF35/RZ35 825 mb disks.

I wanted to load NetBSD on the 2nd disk because I want to leave VMS on the first.

First I tried version 1.3 and have had the following problems.

 I ALWAYS get a "bad format" at this prompt:
   >> NetBSD/vax boot [970701 19:46] << 
: ra(1,1,1)netbsd

The reason I am using 1,1,1 is because my disks are in a cabinet, and I guess it sees an adapter  for each disk (adapter 1, controller 1, disk 1), and because thats the only combination that worked when I ran edlabel on the disk.  If I ran edlabel on disk 1,1 it never kept the label ... i.e. next time I booted, BOOT would say there was no label on the disk.  I think I only have 1 adapter, but the program won't see things that way.
If I use 1,1,0 it works right!
So ...

I tried version 12G and 12, which both give me the same result ... following is a log of what happened when I tried to ra1* as the root device:

 1) Dansk       7) Nederlands
 2) Deutsch     8) Norsk
 3) English     9) Portugujs
 4) Espaqol    10) Suomi
 5) Frangais   11) Svenska
 6) Italiano

(1..11): 3

KA650-A   V1.2/0123 

Performing normal system tests.

30..29..28..27..26..25..24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..
14..13..12..11..10..09..08..07..06..05..04..03..

Tests completed.
>How-To-Repeat:
See above.


>Fix:
None known.


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->port-vax-maintainer 
Responsible-Changed-By: fair 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 28 09:46:49 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
This PR is the responsibility of the portmaster, 
not the GNATS database administrator. 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: ragge 
State-Changed-When: Tue Jan 5 07:03:51 PST 1999 
State-Changed-Why:  
The problems have been fixed over the time. 
>Unformatted:
 >>>b/3 mua0



   2..
 -MUA0
   1..0..


 howto 0x3, bdev 0x12, booting...done. (31332+22252)

 >> NetBSD/vax boot [970701 19:46] <<
 : ra(1,1,1)netbsd
 621568+32768+85724 start 0x8b414
 [ netbsd symbol table not valid ]
 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
   The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

 NetBSD 1.2_ALPHA (GENERIC) #2: Sun Jun 23 11:26:00 MET DST 1996
     ragge@urgoriyf:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC

 realmem = 33521664
 avail mem = 27902976
 Using 1636 buffers containing 1675264 bytes of memory.
 backplane0 (root)
 cpu0 at backplane0sbi0 at backplane0: Q22
 uba0 at sbi0 tr0
 uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 17
 uda0: version 3 model 5
 uda0: DMA burst size set to 4
 ra0 at uda0 slave 0: no disk label: no partition table for DI RF 35, size 16646;
 using (s,t,c)=(57,14,2086)
 uda1 at uba0 csr 160334 vec 770, ipl 17
 uda1: version 3 model 5
 uda1: DMA burst size set to 4
 ra5 at uda1 slave 1: rz35, size = 1664628 sectors
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 tmscp0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 754, ipl 17
 tms0 at tmscp0 slave 0
 qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 750 ipl 17
 qe0: delqa, hardware address 08:00:2b:0d:ea:c9
 root device? ra1*
 panic: cannot mount root
 Stopped at      0x8000539d:     movl    0x800abd70, r0
 db> 
 ?02 EXT HLT
     PC = 8008BEED

 I noticed at this point that above a ra5 was found, which kinda makes sense if we're looking at the first disk on the 2nd adapter ... disks 1.4 would be the first adapter ... right??????

 So I tried to use ra5* which seemed to work at first, then went downhill REAL fast!

  1) Dansk       7) Nederlands
  2) Deutsch     8) Norsk
  3) English     9) Portugujs
  4) Espaqol    10) Suomi
  5) Frangais   11) Svenska
  6) Italiano

 (1..11): 3

 KA650-A   V1.2/0123 

 Performing normal system tests.

 30..29..28..27..26..25..24..23..22..21..20..19..18..17..16..15..
 14..13..12..11..10..09..08..07..06..05..04..03..

 Tests completed.
 >>>b/3 mua0



   2..
 -MUA0
   1..0..


 howto 0x3, bdev 0x12, booting...done. (31332+22252)

 >> NetBSD/vax boot [970701 19:46] <<
 : ra(1,1,1)netbsd
 621568+32768+85724 start 0x8b414
 [ netbsd symbol table not valid ]
 Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
   The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

 NetBSD 1.2_ALPHA (GENERIC) #2: Sun Jun 23 11:26:00 MET DST 1996
     ragge@urgoriyf:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC

 realmem = 33521664
 avail mem = 27902976
 Using 1636 buffers containing 1675264 bytes of memory.
 backplane0 (root)
 cpu0 at backplane0sbi0 at backplane0: Q22
 uba0 at sbi0 tr0
 uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 17
 uda0: version 3 model 5
 uda0: DMA burst size set to 4
 ra0 at uda0 slave 0: no disk label: no partition table for DI RF 35, size 16646;
 using (s,t,c)=(57,14,2086)
 uda1 at uba0 csr 160334 vec 770, ipl 17
 uda1: version 3 model 5
 uda1: DMA burst size set to 4
 ra5 at uda1 slave 1: rz35, size = 1664628 sectors
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 zs0: timeout waiting for TS_SSR
 tmscp0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 754, ipl 17
 tms0 at tmscp0 slave 0
 qe0 at uba0 csr 174440 vec 750 ipl 17
 qe0: delqa, hardware address 08:00:2b:0d:ea:c9
 root device? rat55*
 bad/missing unit number
 root device? ra5*
 Internal clock not started. Using time from file system.
 Preserved 3687 blocks of miniroot leaving 46313 pages of swap
 Segv in kernel mode: rv 1
 Trap: type c, code 0, pc 800158b3, psl 4150004
 P0BR 80768800   P1BR 7ff61c00   P0LR     15dc   P1LR   1fff00
 KSP  83e3a400   ISP  80168aec   USP  7fffddf0
 R0          0   R1   81e1a540   R2          0   R3   81e1a540
 R4   ffffffff   R5         15   R6   81e1a500   R7         14
 R8   7fffdfbc   R9      3cab7   R10         0   R11         3
 FP   80168b88   AP   80168b9c   PC   800158b3   PSL   4150004
 panic: trap: adr 0
 Stopped at      0x80091b08:     bbs     $6, 60(r6), 0x80091b10
 db> 


 I have tried and tried, but to no avail.  Just so you know how the disk is configured, here's an edlabel (S)iew of it.

 (btw: I looked up the specs on the RF35, even the RPM (4500), I tried both 0 and 1 for the interleave)

 First I tried: 

 disk type 2 (MSCP),  rz35: 
 interleave 0, rpm 5400, trackskew 0, cylinderskew 0
 headswitch 0, track-to-track 0, drivedata: 0 0 0 0 0

 bytes/sector: 512
 sectors/track: 57
 tracks/cylinder: 14
 sectors/cylinder: 798
 cylinders: 2086

 8 partitions:
      size   offset
 a:   204800,    0
 b:   100000,    204800
 c:   1664406,    0
 d:   0,    0
 e:   1359606,    304800
 f:   0,    0
 g:   0,    0
 h:   0,    0


 I didn't realize until after I was done that there were 222 blocks (133664 bytes) left over.  I made e big though because I wanted a big USR directory ...

 When that didn't work, I tried (same disk parms except partition sizes)

 8 partitions:
      size   offset
 a:   50000,    0
 b:   50000,    50000
 c:   1664406,    0
 d:   50000,    100000
 e:   50000,    150000
 f:   0,    0
 g:   0,    0
 h:   0,    0

 Incase you wonder where I came up with some of the characteristics, this is a display from VMS after I initialized it in VMS, but before I did anything else to the disk  (btw, the disks are DIA# instead of DUA* after the VMS boot up sequence).

 Disk DIB1:, device type (type not yet identified), is online, mounted, file-
     oriented device, shareable, available to cluster, error logging is enabled.

     Error count                    0    Operations completed                653
     Owner process                 ""    Owner UIC                       [CHRIS]
     Owner process ID        00000000    Dev Prot    S:RWED,O:RWED,G:RWED,W:RWED
     Reference count                1    Default buffer size                 512
     Total blocks             1664628    Sectors per track                    57
     Total cylinders             2086    Tracks per cylinder                  14

     Volume label           "NETBSD1"    Relative volume number                0
     Cluster size                  16    Transaction count                     1
     Free blocks              1664406    Maximum files allowed             48959
 	    Extend quantity                5    Mount count                           1
     Mount status              System    Cache name             "_DIA0:XQPCACHE"
     Extent cache size             64    Maximum blocks in extent cache   133915
     File ID cache size            64    Blocks currently in extent cache      0
     Quota cache size               0    Maximum buffers in FCP cache        849

   Volume status:  subject to mount verification, write-through caching enabled.

 I hope this is enough information to help you figure out the problem ... the only other thing I have done is use copy to put the image on the disk's swap partition (ra(1,1,1)).

 Thank you for your time!

 Comment from Ragge:
 The RA disk panic was due to the old MSCP code. Fixed now.
 The other panic was because of an uninitialized pointer in the console code.
 Fixed since pre-1.3.

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