Ouch :(
	I've got twp uVaxen which seem quite happy - other people seem
	to be having the same problem as you. Could you try a 1.1 or
	earlier boot tape & see if it works?

                   David/abs             (david@mono.org)

.---- I've been too drunk to love ----.--- I've been too drunk to remember -.
|          Too drunk to care          |     The hell of the night before    |
|  Looked like death, felt like Hell  |    I've been drinking myself blind  |
`------ Been the worse for wear ------'--- And still I'll drink some more --'

On 8 Oct 1996, Karl Ramm wrote:

> Yeah, I later got to the point where I could boot off of ra(0,0,1)netbsd,
> but it would panic shortly after it mounted the miniroot, apparently trying
> to dereference a null pointer (?).
> 
> David Brownlee <david@mono.org> writes:
> > 	Just a quick idea - are you sure you're putting the second file
> > 	from the tape onto the disk via 'copy'?
> > 
> >                    David/abs             (david@mono.org)
> > 
> > .---- I've been too drunk to love ----.--- I've been too drunk to remember -.
> > |          Too drunk to care          |     The hell of the night before    |
> > |  Looked like death, felt like Hell  |    I've been drinking myself blind  |
> > `------ Been the worse for wear ------'--- And still I'll drink some more --'
> > 
> > On Mon, 7 Oct 1996, Christian Johansson wrote:
> > 
> > > I've been having problems installing NetBSD 1.2BETA on a MicroVAX II from a
> > > TK50.   I've gotten to the point where the miniroot has (supposedly) been
> > > copied onto the internal disk (an RD54), but it gives file not found errors
> > > when I try to boot off the miniroot.  I think the miniroot is at least
> > > partially there, because I seem to be able to load the boot program.
> > > 
> > > I'm using the tk-50-file{1,2}-12beta images off of ftp.netbsd.org.
> > > 
> > > Anyone have any ideas? comments? jeers?
> > > 
> > >  I had exactly the same problem, and I have note yet solved it. I tried to
> > >  install the 1.2 beta image onto a uVAX 2 (gpx box) with a single RD54 and 
> > >  it just did not boot the miniroot, after a lot of problems and poking around I got       it to boot the miniroot of the tape, but when I got to the point where the kernel
> > >  kernel prompts for a root, I tried to mount the miniroot wich wouldnt boot and it
> > >  paniced. I also tried to repartionate and reinstall with a lot of different   parameters because I felt that it might be due to some bad block or something
> > >  but nothingb seemed to help...
> > > 
> > >  When will there be another release? And would someone out there care to give
> > >  me a copy of the complete uVAX 2 field maintanance tape, so I can reformat    my drive? The tape I got with my VAX has that function disabled.
> > > 
> > >  /Christian
> > >  
> > > 
> > 
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