>After having obtained hints on how to cure the kernel compilation 
>problem, I successfully built a new kernel, which looks like a big step 
>forward. Thanks again to all who have helped solve my problems.

>A few remaining subleties are listed here:

> With the kernel provided with the miniroot (I haven't tried the one 
>  I've compiled on that), 32 MB of main memory (2 x 8 boards of 2 x 2 MB 
>  each) seem not to work.

Sorry, I don't understand your description of your memory
configuration.  I have a machine here with 32 Mbytes that works.
NetBSD/pmax doesn't currently work with different-sized memory boards.
Were you trying to mix different-sized boards?

>- From the startup files included in etc.tar on NetBSD/arch/pmax/binary, 
>  a command called 'ttyflags -a' gets called which hangs the machine.

>- ps and the like don't work even with the freshly compiled kernel:

The base.tar.gz that Ted Lemon built is nearly six months old.
Some of the kernel interfaces have changed over that time; and 
the miniroot you're using was compiled in the last two weeks.
Ted doesn't have a pmax anymore, and mine doesn't have enough disk
space to build ELF binaries, which are about twice the size of the
old a.out binaries.


I just built a new base.tar.gz, that was current as of about July 7,
and installed it on sup.netbsd.org today.  If you fetch that tarball,
the problems with programs that use libkvm (ps, and others) should go
away.  The new base.tar.gz should be visible on FTP mirrors tomorrow.


--Jonathan