Subject: Re: Help with MVII install
To: A. Sporner <asporner@eagle.ibc.edu>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 05/19/1996 12:08:54
> Hello All,
>
> First, thanks to everyone who nudged me on the way to getting netbsd
> for my microvax. I got all through the install and when I got ready
> to boot the miniroot the kernel paniced. The nature of the panic
> suggests that the Microvax II is not supported, though all the documents
> say it is. I have included the log of the system startup so the CPU
> version is known and all the events up to the failure. Can anyone help?
>
> cpu0 at backplane0: MicroVAX 78032/78132
> sbi0 at backplane0panic: Microvax not supported
>
What's happening is that the kernel determines which chipset it is
(the Microvax II chipset) but cannot determine the system type on
which it is placed. I think someone else also got this once. If
you can do
>>>E/P/L 20040004
and send me the result I may be able to track down the problem.
-- Ragge