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Re: Fail. Interrupt loop during install.



In article <CAEokdfcpbhTBExpqK0A1NJT6cZQXDv_jbcNei+zB2=CJH-rdFw%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Mark Kahrs  <mark.kahrs%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>after futzing around with netboot installation (and, for the record, the
>existing installation documentation is seriously out of date), I
>finally got the install
> file to boot, only to eventually encounter an infinite loop of :
>
>stray interrupt: vector 0x18, ipl 31
>
>And, to make matters worse, this was reported *nearly 3 years ago* by
>a SIMH user:
>
>http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/pipermail/simh/2013-July/012551.html
>
>This is actual hardware: a 3100 model 38.  If netbsd is not ready for
>prime time, perhaps the vax branch should be dropped.  The mop
>bootloader has to be obtained from 1.5 and that ain't right.

Where are you running mopd? And is that the NetBSD mopd that understands
ELF? Because if it is not the NetBSD mopd chances are that it will think
that the boot file is a raw file...

christos



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