On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Erik E. Fair wrote:

> At 7:46 PM -0800 2/13/01, Chuck Rouillard wrote:
> >I have an Axil 320, 512M RAM, single 2G SCSI, and a floppy. I'm
> >using `ttya' but otherwise a normal, headless, pizza box. I believe
> >I installed NetBSD 1.4.3 (via FTP) correctly (no noticable
> >complaints) but booting from the local SCSI drive causes the kernel
> >to panic on what appears to be the floppy controller:
>
> Chuck, it looks to me like you're booting a 1.4 GENERIC kernel,
> rather than 1.4.3 GENERIC; there is a difference - lots of things
> were fixed along the way, including HyperSPARC CPU support (you may
> notice that up top, it says "warning: hypersparc supprt still under
> construction"). See if you can get a 1.4.3 GENERIC and boot that
> instead.
>
> I have an SS20 with a 150 MHz HyperSPARC CPU running 1.4.3A (latest
> branch patches) that is rock solid stable.
>
> 	Erik <fair@clock.org>

Yep. I had the correct 1.4.3 floppy, but installed from the
wrong location. Thanks for pointing this out. It all worked
flawlessly.

-chuckr

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