Subject: Re: AW: Netbooting VaxStation 3100 M38
To: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/13/2001 09:41:08
Its a long shot but it might relate to a bug that I started tracking a 
while back and then got distracted by building BattleBots.

There was a bug in the netboot code that was corrupting something in the 
page tables. I could reproduce it on the M3100/76 by booting a compressed 
kernel and later by netbooting any "second choice" kernel. The symptom was 
if the first kernel it tried to netboot was not found, when it started 
booting the one it _did_ find it would generate a lot of messages about 
ptlen's not matching. The workaround was to make sure that it found the 
first kernel it asked for.

If this is the same bug, then renaming netbsd to netbsd.vax (which is what 
it looks for first) will allow it to boot. Let me know if that does indeed 
get you up and running.

--Chuck

At 02:53 PM 10/13/01 +0200, Anders Magnusson wrote:
> > hi,
> > here are the results:
> >
>Ok, now you did get the panic later. What happens is that you get an
>interrupt or something that isn't handled. It may be due to almost
>anything, and not simple to find.
>
>-- Ragge