On Sat, 21 Nov 1998 21:41:06 -0800 (PST)  "Aaron J. Grier" wrote:

> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> 
> >   The problem is that a 5000/200 will hang when running with a serial
> > console AND there is no mouse connected.  [The driver tries to
> > initialize the mouse and probably is hanging waiting for the
> > non-existent mouse to respond.] I'm fairly certain [I don't have a mouse
> > on my 5000/200 to verify this] that it will function normally when a
> > mouse is present. 
> 
> I verified this:  my 5000/200 now boots with a mouse hooked up.  :) 
> (Hooray!)

Ah, a guinea pig^W^Wtester!  Could you please try the kernel in
ftp.NetBSD.ORG:/pub/NetBSD/arch/pmax/pre-1.3.3/sdb-kernels ? It has
already to been reported to work on a 5000/200 without a mouse, so it
should work for you too.  Another check won't hurt...

> >   This should not normally be a problem with the 3100, since there will
> > either be a mouse connected, or a mouse loop-back connector, and the dc
> > driver won't hang.
> 
> I can run the 10-25 snapshot on my 3100 without problems.  (Now if I could
> only figure out why it likes to reboot when I don't have anything hooked
> up to the serial console...)

What triggers the reboot, and is it only with the 10-25 snapshot?

Simon.