[comp.os.mach] Help putting Mach 2.5 on mVAX 3400

greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu (Gregory TRAVIS) (10/10/90)

Hi, I'm trying to bring up Mach 2.5 from CMU on a MicroVax 2400.  I've got a
full distribution on a disk that emulates an RA82, but it looks like there are
subtle CPU differences which the distributed kernel can't hack.

Using the boot routines from Ultrix 3.0 (ultrixboot/vmb.exe) I can get the
Mach kernel to spew the following:

Vax boot: Memory from 0x94000 to 0x0 (the "to" range there looks real bad)
Kernel virtual Space from 0x80000000 to 0x83000000
machine check 82
panic: mchk

Looks like somebody isn't sizing memory correctly.  Note that I can't
get any action using the distributed CMU boot routines, they go
catatonic the minute I type "b dua0".

Anyone got patches for me, or a good kernel binary?  I've not hacked Vax
opsystem code since the 780 and I don't want to start again on a 3400.

thanks,
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Gregory R. Travis                Indiana University, Bloomington IN 47405
greg@cica.cica.indiana.edu       Center for Innovative Computer Applications