On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Anders Magnusson wrote:

> > 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 am really wondering why this happens for some people. I have
> tried a lot but haven't been able to reproduce the bug, I've
> never got it myself. Any help would be appreciated...
> 
> -- Ragge
> 
Well, I am new at this.  What help may I provide?

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