Thanks Jochen,

Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:33:21 +0100
> Torsten Harenberg <harenberg@physik.uni-wuppertal.de> wrote:
> 
>> Tried to boot from a NetBSD 3.0/alpha disk but the kernel stucks while
>> booting:
> The usual advice: Maybe try with 4.0-Beta or -current?
> 

3.1 didn't work, for anything else I will try to use a bootp server.

> When it hangs, can you break into the kernel debugger ddb(4) (break on
> the serial console) and get a backtrace?

Unfortunately not. BREAK on the serial console is just ignored at that stage. :-(

I saw that a sightly newer SRM release is available. Do you think that might help?

Cheers,

   Torsten

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