In article <20020510173304.A1099@butterlicious.bodgit-n-scarper.com>,
Matt <matt@bodgit-n-scarper.com> wrote:
>I've become the proud owner of a VAXstation 4000/90, 64MB and a 1GB-ish
>RZ26B disk, with OpenVMS 6.0 currently scaring me, hence I'm attempting
>to make the box useful with NetBSD.

>...but somehow that's cleared itself, (I forced NFSv2, but it didn't
>seem to make a difference, maybe something got cached), and now the VAX
>starts trying to boot the kernel and gets stuck here:
>
>-EZA0
>>> NetBSD/vax boot [Aug 19 2001 05:57:49] <<
>>> Press any key to abort autoboot 0
>> boot
>Trying BOOTP
>Using IP address: 192.168.1.7
>myip: cougar (192.168.1.7)
>root addr=192.168.1.1 path=/export/cougar/root
>706204+1205216Boot failed: Input/output error
>> _


my VAX 4000/90 always stops there when i netboot it.
if i type "boot netbsd" at the ">" prompt after the I/O
error, it boots fine, like this:



	>>> boot

 
	-EZA0
	>> NetBSD/vax boot [Aug 19 2001 05:57:49] <<
	>> Press any key to abort autoboot 4
	Press '?' for help
	> boot
	Trying BOOTP
	Using IP address: 135.207.27.236
	myip:  (135.207.27.236)
	root addr=135.207.27.209 path=/usr/export/root/vax
	1171756Boot failed: Input/output error
[*]	> boot netbsd
	1171756+57000+194876+[85608+100974] total=0x1891ee
	[ preserving 186588 bytes of netbsd a.out symbol table ]
	Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
	    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
	Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
	    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
	
	NetBSD 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Aug 26 11:59:29 EDT 2001
	    chuck@cdc.research.att.com:/mnt/netbsd/current/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/GENERIC
	[etc...]


the line marked "[*]" is where i have to type "boot netbsd" to
get it to go.  have not looked into why it does this.   this is 
with 1.5.2.


chuck