On Fri, 4 Dec 1998, Marc Gutschner wrote:

> I'm currently having some - uhm - bizarre problems with the current VAX
> kernels and my VS3100/m38. I compiled myself a kernel from -current
> source sup'd one or two days ago. The compile itself went really smooth
> but as soon as I tried to boot, the kernel get's loaded and immediateley
> bombs out with a 'RESTART SYS'

Same here.  On my VS3100/M38, latest snapshot, older bootloader which is
using rarp/bootparamd.  Is the kernel expecting a BOOTP server? (Not that
it would explain the following troubles).

 -ESA0
 >> NetBSD/vax boot [980110 22:29] <<
 : /netbsd
 boot: client IP address: 10.3.250.106
 boot: client name: meme
 root addr=10.3.250.41 path=/export/meme/root
 806876+44788+164520
  85 RESTART SYS
  84 FAIL

  83 BOOT SYS

 [loops through the above boot attempts]

I've yet to try the latest snapshot on my VS2000 or MicroVAX II, but I
will do so shortly.

-brian.
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