On 12-Oct-98, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 01:06:40PM -0800, B. Bogart wrote:
> > Here is some further information on my problems. I have previously
installed
> > NetBSD1.21 with some success. It all worked fine (with X too) but i got

> Surely not. You installed NetBSD 1.2.1. There is now 1.21 currently, thats 
> why I know. This may sound like nitpicking, but please dont mix
> patch levels with revision levels.

> > strange segmentation fault messages. When i was using netbsd1.21 I also
had
> to
> > use the -pZ  options for loadbsd. Anyhow i asked about my segmentation
fault
> > problem and was told to reinstall from scratch, and since i was doing that
i
> > downloaded the lastest sets and am using then instead. the install script
> for
> > netbsd 1.21 never crashed on me.
> > 
> > I do have incontigious memory. I have 4meg of fast ram (I assume 32 bit)
on
> > the motherboard, and 8 on an expansion card. and the 2 chip. I have
> > experimented with the -n1 -n2 options with no success, netbsd will only
boot
> > with -pZ (I belive that the -p means use highest priority memory first,
the
> 4
> > on the motherboard, and the Z means that the kernel is loaded into chip
mem
> > first.) 
> > 
> > I hope this helps.

> What expansion card? I think we have a bug related to Z2 memory boards
which,
> unfortunately, never was properly hunted down.

> This would explain your problems.

> -is

The Card is a Microbotics 8up Zorro II card, sounds like that could be the
problem, where to go from here?

Ben