the 1.6 boot blocks were broken a while ago, i guess they still are.. Just 
use the 1.5 ones i'd say.. though it would be good to figure out why they
broke.. 
isildur

On Mon, 8 Mar 2004, John Klos wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm finally setting up NetBSD on my second (and finally local) VAX, and
> I've noticed that we don't have a working boot.mop file. When I try to use
> the boot file from:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.2/vax/installation/netboot/boot
> 
> all I get is this:
> 
> ?50 SCB2NDINT, ESA0.
>   85 RESTART SYS
>   84 FAIL
>   83 BOOT SYS
> 
> Using this one works:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5/vax/installation/netboot/boot.mop
> 
> This is a 4000/60, BTW. Anyone have a clue?
> 
> John Klos
> -- 
> Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.
>