port-sparc: Re: hmm, i must be doing something wrong

Subject: Re: hmm, i must be doing something wrong
To: NetBSD port-sparc mailing list <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/22/2000 10:15:47

> So I have an IPX.  I am trying to boot off of a floppy disk so that
> I may install version 1.4.2 of my favorite OS.  I type 
> 'boot floppy netbsd' at the openboot prompt and I am rewarded with
> "Data Access Exception"

There were some problems in -current with the memory layout in 4c's.  This
might be the same.  If you have a 4Mb SIMM in the first bank, you might run
into this.  Can you put a 16Mb in the first bank and then try?

J

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