I have been lurking here for quite some time, hoping eventually to glean
enough info to get a NetbSD system working on my MVIIs.  One is a World
Box and another BA23, both using ESDI drives and Sigma RQD11
controllers.

In an attempt to be self-sufficient and not bother people with my
problems, I have tried to get a miniroot running using both the 1.2G and
1.3 versions ftp'd from NetBSD.org.  I can only get so far.   I have
tried using every combination of hardware and software using both boxes
and reliably come up with the following problems:

1.    Version 1.3 loads its banner, then the system crashes with a
console corruption message and reboots.

2.    Version 1.2 G reliably crashes in the following way, using, again
all combinations of hardware and software in my posession.  Although the
following dump is using the drive as RA2 I also moved the disk to RA0,
re-formatted, reloaded 1.2G, and got the same results.


>>> b dub2/1
  2..1..0..
howto 0x1, bdev 0x11, booting...
getdisklabel: no disk label
10556+552+33996 start 0x0
Nboot
: ra(0,2,1)netbsd
621568+32768+85724 start 0x8b414

CPU type 8000001
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993

 The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.2_ALPHA (GENERIC) #2: Sun Jun 23 11:26:00 MET DST 1996
    ragge@urgoriyf:/usr/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC

realmem = 9436160
avail mem = 6940672
Using 460 buffers containing 471040 bytes of memory.
backplane0 (root)

cpu0 at backplane0: MicroVAX II
sbi0 at backplane0: Q22
uba0 at sbi0 tr0
uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 774, ipl 17
uda0: version 9 model 7
uda0: DMA burst size set to 4
ra0 at uda0 slave 0: no disk label: no partition table for DU RA 81,
size 650965;
using (s,t,c)=(35,15,1239)
ra2 at uda0 slave 2: ra81, size = 622676 sectors
uda1 at uba0 csr 160334 vec 770, ipl 17
uda1: version 3 model 3
uda1: DMA burst size set to 4
ra6 at uda1 slave 2: floppy
root device? ra2*
WARNING: Clock has gained 156 days - CHECK AND RESET THE DATE.
Preserved 3687 blocks of miniroot leaving 46313 pages of swap

Segv in kernel mode: rv 1
Trap: type c, code 0, pc 800158b3, psl 4150004
P0BR 805c8000   P1BR 7fdc1400   P0LR     15dc   P1LR   1fff00
KSP  82a1a290   ISP  8013aaec   USP  7fffde68
R0          0   R1   81c54540   R2   81c5b900   R3   81c54540
R4   ffffffff   R5         15   R6   81c54500   R7         14
R8   80098cac   R9   20007461   R10  74612000   R11  82a1a360
FP   8013ab88   AP   8013ab9c   PC   800158b3   PSL   4150004
panic: trap: adr 0
Stopped at      0x80091b08:     bbs     $6, 60(r6), 0x80091b10

3.    Both systems reliably run VMS
4.    It looks to me like the image is corrupt, but I have downloaded
several times from both NetBSD.ORG and other mirrors.

5.            Unfortunately, I don't have any other UNIX systems on site
at present, or i would try the net netboot procedure.

AM I missing something that you gurus do intuitively?

Any and all help greatly papreciated.

Regards,

Nigel Johnson