After being up a little while, it crashed while editing the passwd file. 
I'm not sure if it crashed in vi, or in mkpasswd. 
ill try to duplicate it and find out more. 
Isildur

On Sun, 11 Mar 2001, Lord Isildur wrote:

> 
> hello,
>  here's the dmesg output:
> 
> 
> NetBSD 1.5R (GENERIC) #2: Sun Feb 11 20:25:36 CET 2001
>     ragge@bakfull:/usr/home/ragge/tmp/syssrc/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC
> 
> unknown 1301
> cpu0: unknown NVAX, ucode rev 2
> total memory = 127 MB
> avail memory = 114 MB
> using 1663 buffers containing 6652 KB of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> ibus0 at mainbus0
> ze0 at ibus0
> ze0: hardware address 08:00:2b:2b:67:71
> device shac at ibus0 not configured
> uba0 at ibus0: Q22
> mtc0 at uba0 csr 174500 vec 774 ipl 17
> mscpbus0 at mtc0: version 4 model 3
> mscpbus0: DMA burst size set to 4
> uda0 at uba0 csr 172150 vec 770 ipl 17
> mscpbus1 at uda0: version 6 model 13
> mscpbus1: DMA burst size set to 4
> uda1 at uba0 csr 160334 vec 764 ipl 17
> mscpbus2 at uda1: version 6 model 13
> mscpbus2: DMA burst size set to 4
> boot device: ze0
> root on ze0
> nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
> nfs_boot: BOOTP server: 10.0.0.11
> nfs_boot: my_addr=10.0.0.9
> nfs_boot: my_mask=255.0.0.0
> root on vinyalonde:/usr4/open/nbsdvax
> root file system type: nfs
> 
> and here is the other info: 
> 
> >>>E/I/L 3e
>   I 0000003E 13000202
> >>>E/P/L 20040004
>   P 20040004 01460701
> >>>
> 
> 
> happy hacking!
> isildur
> 
> 
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Michael Kukat wrote:
> 
> > Not experimental... Working! (I hope). Get the 1.5 distribution and get the
> > kernel from
> > ftp://ftp.unixiron.homeip.net/pub/NetBSD-vax-1.5/
> > 
> > If you get everything working, please send me the dmesg output and the output
> > of the console commands
> > 
> > E/I/L 3e
> > E/P/L 20040004
>