I've been trying to install NetBSD 1.2 on a pile of diskless 340 machines.
On most of them, it was fine, but on one I had problems.  This one seemed
to have different ("rev D", I think) firmware to the others; I could get
it to boot over the network, but not reliably (I got "unexpected trap..."
messages most of the time) and when it did work, it was painfully slow to
start, taking something like an hour to get to a login prompt and dumping
core several times on the way.  Further, it then didn't seem to be able to
execute any binaries, giving some error from ld.so - I don't have the
exact details to hand.

Does anybody know what could cause this?  Is it likely to be a hardware
problem with the machine, or an incompatibility with its firmware?  Would
using -current help?

Thanks
Phil