Subject: Re: 4.0_BETA fails to install ^U free vax
To: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/05/2006 08:35:29
On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 10:54:01AM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2006, at 10:51 AM, Ben Collver wrote:
> >I tried to install NetBSD 4.0_BETA from the releng 20060930 snapshot on
> >my vax.  It crashes when it tries to fetch the sets, using ftp or http.
> >Then it automatically reboots, tries to boot the disk, fails because
> >there is no OS on the disk, and automatically reboots again, continues
> >this in an endless loop, scrolling the crash message off my terminal.
> >
> >The last time I was quick enough to write it down:
> >Segv in kernel mode: pc 8000c76c addr ba 340140
> 
>   It seems NetBSD is "porking out" to the point where it's just not 
> practical to run it on a VAX anymore.  I find this *extremely* 
> disappointing but I don't know what to do about it.

Please explain, in detail, how the consequent follows from the
antecedent.

Thor