> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 12:48:58 -0800 (PST)
> From: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
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> A strange problem started with my Sun 3/60 last night. I had compiled
> a new kernel (1.1, not current) a little while ago, and I realised
> today the reason it was running so slow is that I'd forgotten to
> set si_options. So I made a backup copy of the kernel, set si_options
> to 7, and rebooted.
> 
> Now, regardless of whether I boot from the new kernel, the older
> one with si_options set to 0, or the GENERIC kernel, my machine
> gets part or most of the way through the boot process and something
> wedges. Often it will get all the way to printing the date (and
> presumably exiting /etc/rc), but then getty never seems to start.

The 1.1 kernel has a known bug with disconnect/reselect which
has been fixed in the -current kernel.  By the way, there is
a new kernel on ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/netbsd-gen.gz

> I can drop into the kernel debugger with L1-A, but I don't have
> much idea of what to do from there. I tried a few stack traces,
> which led me for some time to believe that it was a serial port
> problem, as my machine was always locking up in zsabort(). :-)

(I hope the smiley means you understand that zsabort is what gets
called when you hit L1-A or break 8^)

Gordon