Subject: Re: SV: Installation problems on a MicroVAX II
To: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
From: Karl Ramm <karl@oit.duke.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/08/1996 14:52:44
I have a 1.1A miniroot, but I haven't had a chance to get it onto the
machine (which is about 2 miles from my only other TK50 drive...)

I suspect that there's something wrong with my TK50 drive, 'cus the tapes
only seem to work once or twice, even if I rewrite them.

David Brownlee <david@mono.org> writes:
> 	Ouch :(
> 	I've got twp uVaxen which seem quite happy - other people seem
> 	to be having the same problem as you. Could you try a 1.1 or
> 	earlier boot tape & see if it works?
> 
>                    David/abs             (david@mono.org)
> 
> .---- I've been too drunk to love ----.--- I've been too drunk to remember -.
> |          Too drunk to care          |     The hell of the night before    |
> |  Looked like death, felt like Hell  |    I've been drinking myself blind  |
> `------ Been the worse for wear ------'--- And still I'll drink some more --'
> 
> On 8 Oct 1996, Karl Ramm wrote:
> 
> > Yeah, I later got to the point where I could boot off of ra(0,0,1)netbsd,
> > but it would panic shortly after it mounted the miniroot, apparently trying
> > to dereference a null pointer (?).