Re: Boot failure on 4000/500A

[Anders Högrelius <ahs%hogrelius.nu@localhost>]

I remember having a similar problem where it apparently was caused by a bug where memory was overwritten somewhere. A generic kernel would not boot if it was stripped of debug symbols, but a kernel with full debug information would boot fine. 

Anders

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> On Apr 9, 2019, at 8:31 AM, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 
>> 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