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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!not-for-mail From: Enrik Berkhan <enrik@akk.uni-karlsruhe.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems booting Vaxstation 2000 Date: 10 May 1997 16:56:35 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, Germany Lines: 16 Sender: Enrik Berkhan <enrik@akk3.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de> Message-ID: <5l29c3$djn$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> References: <5kv2rl$id0$1@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: akk3.akk.uni-karlsruhe.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit NNTP-Posting-User: enrik X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970509; i486 Linux 2.0.30] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5923 Enrik Berkhan <enrik@akk.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote: : I'm trying to install NetBSD on a Vaxstation 2000. So far i have set up : a netbooted environment to boot the generic kernel. This works until : the kernel should be started. The bootloader prints "start 0x9something" : and the machine hangs ... : There isn't any network traffic anymore either. Found a strange solution myself. Seems there was a problem concerning net- work timing. When I started to run to simultaneous tcpdumps on the boot server (linux box), the Vaxstation booted reliably. Reproduceably. Strange. Enrik