Subject: Re: turns up it toes and dies
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Karl Ramm <karl@oit.duke.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/01/1996 09:42:50
"c. Kronenwetter" <ckronenw@execpc.com> writes:
> I have tried a number of times over the past several months to 
> install NetBSD on a MV II. Each attempt has lead to the same 
> sequence:
> 1. I build the tk50 tape on a microvax
> 2. I load and use edlabel on a second microvax II to initialize the   
>    RD54---works like it's supposed to.
> 3. I copy the initial image to the disk--works great
> 4. I attempt to boot up the new image
> 5. I see 2 or 3 screens of startup and system data
> 6. I see the message concerning incorrect system time
> 7. I get a kernel panic and get dumped into db>

Last night I got my Microvax II to exactly this point.  If it would help,
I think I could capture the register dump.  (Except that I'm making my
tapes on a DECstation running Ultrix.)