The boot blocks end up displaying odd characters on my screen, but can
boot my old kernel on one disk I have.  On the other disk I'm trying
to install 1.4_ALPHA, and it has problems with the kernel, it panics
with:

  panic: uvm_km_suballoc: unable to allocate space in parent map
  halted.

I took a picture of the screen while it was trying to boot, since
I'm unable to type the bizarre characters (although some just look
like splotches).  It's available at
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gendalia/mvc-002f.jpg

Hints, suggestions?

The dmesg for the system as it is working now is:
NetBSD 1.3 (LORIEN) #1: Fri Jan  9 03:07:25 CST 1998
    root@bofh.cc.iastate.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/pmax/compile/LORIEN
real mem = 67108864
avail mem = 57176064
using 1638 buffers containing 6709248 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R3000 CPU Rev. 3.0 with MIPS R3010 FPC Rev. 4.0
        L1 cache: 64kb Instruction, 64kb Data.
tc0 at mainbus0: 12.5 MHz clock
asic0 at tc0 slot 3 offset 0x0
le0 at asic0 offset 0xc0000 priority 4: address 08:00:2b:2e:88:ec
le0: 32 receive buffers, 8 transmit buffers
scc0 at asic0 offset 0x100000 priority 6
scc1 at asic0 offset 0x180000 priority 5
clock0 at asic0 offset 0x200000 priority 0: mc146818 or compatible
asc0 at asic0 offset 0x300000 priority 3: target 7
sfb0 at tc0 slot 0 offset 0x0 (1280x1024x8) (console)
Beginning old-style SCSI device autoconfiguration
rz0 at asc0 drive 0 slave 0 DEC RZ57     (C) DEC rev 5000
rz0: 954MB, 1928 cyl, 15 head, 67 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1954050 sectors
rz1 at asc0 drive 1 slave 0 DEC RZ57     (C) DEC rev 5000
rz1: 954MB, 1928 cyl, 15 head, 67 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1954050 sectors
boot device: rz0
root on rz0a dumps on rz0b
WARNING: clock lost 838 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
root file system type: ffs

Tracy J. Di Marco White
Project Vincent Systems Manager
gendalia@iastate.edu