Re: Netbooting a DEC 3000 m300
This is a turbo channel, theres a couple options.
Tru64 and NetBSD.
I currently have NETBSD on two of these beasts. Theres expiramental frame
buffer support if you have a keyboard and mouse you can even get X
working. the down side is the serial port is a 9600 baud model so you
can't even use it for a dial-up gateway.
Good luck.
Terry
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Rich Payne wrote:
>
> I think you've got yourself a TurboChannel machine that Linux doesn't
> support. There some info on a porting project here:
> http://www.phys.ufl.edu/~prescott/linux/alpha/dec3000-port.html
>
> but it doesn't look like anything has been done in quite a while.
>
> I think that NetBSD does run on these boxes, but last I knew they didn't
> support a keyboard or video so you need to control it over the serial
> port.
>
> Hope that helps,
> --rdp
>
>
> On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Christian Lavoie wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to netboot a DEC 3000 m300 workstation (two in fact)
> >
> > No floppy, no cd-roms, only Tru64 installed.
> >
> > I've got the TFTP and BOOTP parts nice. In fact, it starts to boot.
> >
> > But it dies after:
> > Linux/AXP bootp loader for Linux 2.2.18pre21
> > Expected vptb at 0000000200000000, got 0000000000000000
> >
> > ?05 HLT INSTR
> > PC=00000000,20000014 PSL= 00000000,00001F00
> >
> > ----
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Tried both tftpboot.img from woody and potato, they both look bad.
> >
> > What am I missing? If all else fails, I have a couple of i386 based machines
> > around, how can I cross-compile an alpha kernel, wrap it in a tftpboot.img
> > files (with whatever else is required) and try again?
> >
> > Have fun,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
>
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