On Wed, 15 Jan 2003, Baby Peanut wrote:

> When I type
>
> ">>> b eza0"
>
> it goes
>
> -EZA0
>  85 RESET SYS
>  84 FAIL
>  83 BOOT SYS
>
> and then tries to boot from the harddisk which does not have an OS loaded yet.
>
> This is with the NetBSD-1.6 bootstrap from
>
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6/vax/installation/netboot/boot

Actually, the problem here is with the `boot' file for 1.6--your
VS4000/90 nvram hasn't been damaged worse.  The `boot' isn't converted
to a MOPable image that can be booted by the VAX over the network.  The
tool for generating mopable images was rewritten for 1.6 to support ELF
images, but unfortunately it doesn't work.

Use the 1.5.3 bootloader with the 1.6 kernel and the 1.6 binaries instead:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.3/vax/installation/netboot/boot.mop

The corruption is caused by pre-1.6 release kernels.

-brian.