Allen Briggs writes:
 > 
 > 2. When I reboot or halt (at least, after a floppy boot), I get dumped
 >    into a low-level monitor mode.  Is this abnormal?  What can I do to
 >    avoid that?  What can I do, once I'm there, to reset/reboot the
 >    machine (other than walking around to the machine and cycling power)?
 > 
This problem does not occur with the workstation console. When you
commented out the following makeoptions line in NetBSD 1.3 with
serial console,

# set kernel load address a bit higher to allow kernel to be netbooted.
# if not netbooting, the "makeoptions LOADADDRESS" line can be commented
# out to save a fair chunk (~850k) of RAM.
makeoptions     LOADADDRESS="fffffc0000300000"

the result was similar. But I think in NetBSD 1.4, the
load address is always 0xfffffc0000300000 ?!

So I cannot offer a solution.

Jürgen Weiß

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