... if you want i can send you the floppy image either via email (not the
smooth way...) or you point me to an anonymous ftp server (i don't have
any anonymous ftp-server running at the moment and would not like to do
so).

well, today i had my first experience in booting off the floppy and got
nearly the same results as you mentioned in the list, except from the L2
cache size. i was booting netbsd.strip from where bob meader wrote on
10/03/2000 12:22:07):


Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.5D (fdboot) #1: Tue Oct  3 04:26:18 PDT 2000
    bobm@client.cci.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/arc/compile/fdboot
MIPS Magnum
total memory = 16384 KB
avail memory = 11824 KB
using 230 buffers containing 920 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R4000 CPU (0x422) Rev. 2.2 with MIPS R4010 FPC
Rev. 0.0
cpu0: L1 cache: 8KB/16B instruction, 8KB/16B data, direct mapped
cpu0: L2 cache: 1024KB/16B mixed, no snooping
L2 cache line size = 16
Please fix implementation of mips3_*Flush*Cache
syncing disks... done
trap: address error (load or I-fetch) in kernel mode
status=0x2004ff02, cause=0xc010, epc=0x802d7734, vaddr=0xfffffffe
pid=0 cmd=swapper usp=0x0 ksp=0x8031ecc0
Stopped in swapper at   0x802d7734:     lw      t1,0(v0)
db> t
802d7724+10 (8030d370,16de3f,d,0) ra 802c7c00 sz 56
802c7b7c+84 (8,16de3f,d,0) ra 802c36f0 sz 24
802c32b4+43c (8,16de3f,d,0) ra 802caecc sz 40
802caeac+20 (8,16de3f,d,0) ra 8022122c sz 24
80220ef4+338 (c0005f00,16de3f,8031ee40,802cae14) ra 80220dc8 sz 72
80220d80+48 (c0005f00,16de3f,8031ee40,802cae14) ra 802cacc0 sz 32
802cac20+a0 (c0005f00,16de3f,8031ee40,802cae14) ra 8022122c sz 48
80220ef4+338 (0,16de3f,802eb9d0,0) ra 80220e74 sz 72
80220e1c+58 (0,16de3f,802eb9d0,0) ra 802c4fe0 sz 32
802c4fc0+20 (0,16de3f,802eb9d0,0) ra 80220b30 sz 24
80220ae0+50 (0,16de3f,802eb9d0,0) ra 8020df08 sz 24
main+428 (0,16de3f,802eb9d0,0) ra 80200098 sz 88
User-level: pid 0
db>