Subject: Re: DS5k/240 refuses to boot
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/29/1999 11:23:48
       [ ... 3MAX+ refuses '3/tftp' ... ]

> ???
> ? PC:  0x80021fe4<vtr=NRML>
> ? CR:  0x30000010<CE=3,EXC=AdEL>
> ? SR:  0x30080000<CU1,CU0,CM,IPL=8>
> ? VA:  0xa000ef3a

REX ROM monitor failed with 'address error on LOAD operation' 

> Is the ROM version (5.1b) too old to boot via TFTP? I don't have
> a mop server handy and this box has no drives currently attached
> to it. Or is it dead? Has someone seen this error message before?

Does the error happen before any network transaction, or can you
observe something send back-and-forth between your 3MAX+ and
BOOTP/TFTP server?

Tohru Nishimura