dank@tybalt.caltech.edu (Daniel R. Kegel) (12/07/89)
--------[I'm posting this for a friend]----------------- I have a VAXStation3100 model 30 (VS42A-BA), running diskless. When I increased the RAM from 8MBytes to 24MBytes it quit booting, as outlined below. Can anybody help??? OS is ULTRIX 3.0, served from a MicroVAXII that is also running ULTRIX 3.0. I have "physmem" set at 24MBytes and have a 64MByte (!) swap file, both of which can be seen in the boot emissions below. The system boots properly with 8MBytes, and when I add the 16MBytes (DEC memory) it crashes as shown, then when I go back to 8MBytes it works again. I do not change any software stuff on either machine between the experiments. It also fails if I install the 16MByte card w/o piggybacking the 4MB card. The PROM diagnostics 0, A, and B show no errors. The "t 0" PROM diagnostic with 24MBytes installed says: KA42-B V1.2 01 CU F 00B0 MONO 0000.0001 2 0005 0 00:02:39 C 0080 DZ 0000.0001 4 0 00:02:59 B 0010 MEM 003E.0001 2 0038 0 00:02:59 1 00C0 NI 0000.0001 3 0 00:02:50 The DEC document is not really clear on what constitutes a failure of this test, but it does say something about double question-marks indicating a failure. Is this a successful run of the test? The configuration is not pure DEC in that we run the diskless machine out of a normal directory tree on the host machine, rather than in a disk partition. I can provide more details should this prove relevant. Here is what shows up on the screen after the initial boot banner. (24MBytes installed) Note that the RAM size is correct, as is the swapfile size. The error seems to be some sort of RPC problem, but I can't believe that it is anything other than a random consequence of some underlying problem. Recall that it works with the 8MBytes of ram, so a real RPC failure seems unlikely. Ultrix-32 V3.0 (Rev 64) System #3: <date...> real mem = 25042944 avail mem = 20944896 using 1222 buffers containing 2503680 bytes of memory KA420 processor with an FPU ss0 at uba0 csr 0x200a0000 vec 0xc0, ipl 0x14 sm0 at uba0 csr 0x200f0000 vec 0x44, ipl 0x14 se0 at uba0 csr 0x200e0000 vec 0x50, ipl 0x14 root on mocvax:/vars/moc3/root swap on mocvax:/tmp/moc3/moc3.swap swap size - 131072 blocks <X Cursor hangs at 'X' for maybe 30 seconds, then> mountrpc: pmap_kgetport returned error 1 panic: nfs_mountrpc cannot get port for mount service <register dumps...> Please reply to <kirk@moc.jpl.nasa.gov>, as I don't have access to news. I thank everyone for the help I'm sure I will receive. Thanks! - Kirk Reinholtz