> On Sun, 14 Jul 1996, Carl Harris wrote:
> 
> > After months of looking for some replacement hardware for my II/GPX, I
> > finally have a working vax again.  Since my previous 1.1 installation 
> > was lost by a blown disk drive, I attempted to load up the 1.2 beta. 
> > It won't boot from the miniroot.  I labeled the disk and copied the 
> > miniroot onto ra0b, and booted with
> > 
> > 	ra(0,1)netbsd
> > 
> > The kernel loads and configures, then prompts for a root device.  I
> > respond with ra0*.  The usual "clock gained xxx days" message is displayed,
> > then the system crashes with a segv fault in kernel mode.
> > 
> > Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> I'm glad to see that I am not the only one who is being driven mad by
> this.  I have a fairly vanilla MVII, 13 mb ram, a couple rd53s and a tk50.
> The 8mb board is a 3rd party thing, for what that is worth.  I am just
> starting out with NetBSD and the vax, so I haven't tried any earlier
> versions.
> 
I am really wondering why this happens for some people. I have
tried a lot but haven't been able to reproduce the bug, I've
never got it myself. Any help would be appreciated...

-- Ragge