On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Carl Harris wrote:

> After months of looking for some replacement hardware for my II/GPX, I
> finally have a working vax again.  Since my previous 1.1 installation 
> was lost by a blown disk drive, I attempted to load up the 1.2 beta. 
> It won't boot from the miniroot.  I labeled the disk and copied the 
> miniroot onto ra0b, and booted with
> 
> 	ra(0,1)netbsd
> 
> The kernel loads and configures, then prompts for a root device.  I
> respond with ra0*.  The usual "clock gained xxx days" message is displayed,
> then the system crashes with a segv fault in kernel mode.
> 
> Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who is being driven mad by
this.  I have a fairly vanilla MVII, 13 mb ram, a couple rd53s and a tk50.
The 8mb board is a 3rd party thing, for what that is worth.  I am just
starting out with NetBSD and the vax, so I haven't tried any earlier
versions.

I am hoping to move the computer to a new location as soon as I can get
some version installed.  If anybody could point the way to an older
install set, I would apreciate that too.


Out of Darkest Suburbia...
James Mitchell					jmitchel@david.wheaton.edu