Re: Boot failure on 4000/500A

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2019 at 23:42, George Harvey <fr30%dial.pipex.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> I have a VAX 4000/500A with a CQD-223/TM QBUS SCSI card. It was
> previously running NetBSD 6.1.5 on an external SCSI disk and has
> recently been upgraded to NetBSD 8.0. The 8.0 install kernel was
> netbooted, found the SCSI disk (ra0) and completed the installation
> normally. After rebooting, the generic kernel fails to find the CQD
> card. Included below are the console outputs from the install and
> generic kernels.
>
> I remember some discussion a while back about boot problems with large
> kernels on some hardware models, could that be the problem here? The
> disk boot loader is:

Does it work to 'boot -a' the install kernel and select ra0 as the
root device? If so, you could try (cross:)building some kernels to
determine what difference between INSTALL and GENERIC is causing the
issue...

David