On Sat, 5 Feb 2000, Reinhard Foerster wrote:

> I tried to install NetBSD-1.4.1 on a SPARCstation LX with console on 
> serial port A. If i boot the kernel from a floppy (boot-141.fs) i get 
> a kernel panic.
> The machine itself seems to be OK - no problems with Solaris/Linux.
> It has a MicroSPARC-I (TMX390510TBBL) and a pair of 32MB SIMMS in bank 
> A. 
> Is there anything I can do?

At the debugger prompt, you could type `trace' or just `t' to find out
what was going on when things blew up.

The `data fault' does smack a little of a hardware problem, to my eye.
Does it break in the same place every time you try it?

I just booted boot-141.fs on my Sparc Classic (actually a converted
SPARCclassic X) and it came up fine. I'm using four 64 MB SIMMs in the
box, though, and this was on the graphics display.

cjs
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