I had problems with NetBSD on non-PNP machines around that time.  You
might need a kernel without any isapnp in it.
-Brian

On Aug 13,  9:10pm, Andrew Albinger wrote:
} Subject: kernel panic with GENERIC install kernel
} I have recently dusted off the old 486 with netbsd 1.something on it and
} decided to
} upgrade to 1.3.2 by installing from scratch.
} 
} The install via NFS seems to go fairly well, no errors etc  but when I
} reboot and let it boot off of wd0a with the generic kernel from kern.tgz
} I get a kernel panic
} 
} It finds the cpu, ne1, 3 com ports, lpt, wdc,atapibus,wd0 wd1 npx pc0
} then if finds lms0 and immediatly a message appears saying:
} 
} panic: intr_establish: can't share edge-triggered with pulsed
} Stopped at     _Debugger+0x4:  leave
} 
} I have no idea what "the lms device is.  The only device I don't see in
} the list
} of stuff that was found was my 3.5" floppy drive.  I have looked in the
} BIOS settings to see if there is maybe some nifty options for setting up
} interrupts and such on the floppy but I cannot find anything that looks
} like it would help.
} 
} My machine (if you can call it that :)  is a 80486dx2-66 24 meg ram
} ISA bus and all ISA cards.
} IDE controller is ISA and is setup with 2 IDE drives that are found
} correctly.
} 
} Any help that could be sent my way would be appreciated.
} 
} -Andrew Albinger
} 
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} 
>-- End of excerpt from Andrew Albinger