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>      Hi all,
>      
>      As you can see from the dialog below, this is what happens when I 
>      attempt to boot the netbsd kernel from disk. here goes....
>      
[...]
> 
> So if anyone out there can help, I'd be dead grateful.....
> 
Yes, you should use one of the latest snapshots instead of 1.2 ALPHA.
There was a bug in 1.2 that caused panics on MicroVAX II.

-- Ragge