Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> writes:

> It may be the presence of the kernel debugger that causes it, if you
> have it compiled-in. I haven't found that problem yet.

No, I've been using the following config file:

#
#	LUDWIG, a KA650 with 16MB RAM
#
#	DHV11  760500*  0310*
#	DEQNA  774440   0120 
#	TMSCP  774500   0260 	TQK50
#	MSCP   772150   0154 	CMD CQD-220 (disk)
#	TMSCP  760444*  0304*	CMD CQD-220 (tape)
#	MSCP   760334*  0300*	RQDX3

include		"arch/vax/conf/std.vax"

# Here are all different supported CPU types listed.
#options 	"VAX8600"
#options 	"VAX8200"
#options 	"VAX780"
#options 	"VAX750"
options         "VAX630"	# MV II
options         "VAX650"	# MV III, 3600, 3800, 3900
#options 	"VAX410"	# VS 2000
#options 	"VAX43"		# VS 3100/76
#options 	"VAX46"		# VS 4000/60

# Max users on system; this is just a hint
maxusers	8

# Kernel compiled-in symbolic debugger & system call tracer
#options 	DDB
#options 	DDB_HISTORY_SIZE=20
#options 	DDB_ONPANIC=0
options 	KTRACE		# system call tracing, a la ktrace(1)
#options 	KMEMSTATS	# kernel memory statistics (vmstat -m)
options 	DIAGNOSTIC	# cheap kernel consistency checks
#options 	DEBUG		# expensive debugging checks/support
#options 	SCSIVERBOSE	# Verbose SCSI errors

# Network support
#options 	GATEWAY
options 	INET

#options 	DFLDSIZ="(24*1024*1024)"	# default is 16 megabytes
#options 	DFLSSIZ="(8*1024*1024)"		# default is 512 kilobytes

options 	NTP		# Kernel PLL for xntpd

# All supported filesystem types
file-system 	FFS
#file-system 	LFS
file-system 	MFS
file-system 	NFS
file-system 	CD9660
#file-system 	FDESC
file-system 	KERNFS
file-system 	NULLFS
file-system	PORTAL
file-system 	PROCFS
#file-system 	UMAPFS
file-system 	UNION

#options 	QUOTA
options 	FFS_EI		# FFS Endian Independant support
options 	NFSSERVER
#options 	NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM	# Use the Sun way for netbooting.

options 	UVM
options 	PMAP_NEW

# executable+unreadable and secure+setuid script options
options 	FDSCRIPTS
options 	SETUIDSCRIPTS

# System V shared memory & semaphores support.
options 	SYSVMSG
options 	SYSVSEM
options 	SYSVSHM
#options 	SHMMAXPGS=1024	# 64 pages is the default
#options 	SHMSEG=32	# 8 segments is the default

# Old compat stuff; needed to run 4.3BSD Reno programs.
# Note that if COMPAT_ULTRIX is set, you lose compatibility with
# 4.3BSD Reno programs and get Ultrix compatibility instead.
# (They cannot coexist).
options 	COMPAT_VAX1K	# Must be present to run pre-1.4 binaries.
options 	COMPAT_43
#options 	COMPAT_09
#options 	COMPAT_10
options 	COMPAT_11
options 	COMPAT_12
options 	COMPAT_13
#options 	COMPAT_ULTRIX
#options 	TCP_COMPAT_42

options 	LKM

config		netbsd	root on ra0a type ffs

backplane0	at root

cpu0		at backplane0	# Only one CPU so far.
uba0		at backplane0	# MicroVAXen only have QBUS.

uda0		at uba0	csr 0172150	# CMD CQD-220
mscpbus0	at uda0

ra0		at mscpbus0 drive 0
ra1		at mscpbus0 drive 1
ra2		at mscpbus0 drive 2
ra3		at mscpbus0 drive 3

uda1		at uba0	csr 0160334	# RQDX3
mscpbus1	at uda1

ra4		at mscpbus1 drive 0
ra5		at mscpbus1 drive 1
ra6		at mscpbus1 drive 2
ra7		at mscpbus1 drive 3

mtc0		at uba0 csr 0174500	# TQK50
mscpbus2	at mtc0

mt0		at mscpbus2 drive 0

mtc1		at uba0 csr 0160444	# CMD CQD-220
mscpbus3	at mtc1

mt1		at mscpbus3 drive 0

qe0		at uba0 csr 0174440	# DEQNA/DELQA
qd0		at uba? csr 0177400	# QDSS
dhu0		at uba? csr 0160500	# DHU-11

pseudo-device   loop	1
pseudo-device   pty	32
pseudo-device	bpfilter 8	# Not supported by de yet.
pseudo-device	sl	1
pseudo-device	ppp	1
pseudo-device	tun	1
pseudo-device	tb	1
pseudo-device	vnd	4
pseudo-device	ccd	4
# rnd is EXPERIMENTAL
pseudo-device	rnd		# /dev/random and in-kernel generator

#
#	eof
#


-tih
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