Re: Trying to boot Vaxstation using mopd

[Charles Dickman <chd%chdickman.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 7:12 PM, Greg Stark <stark%mit.edu@localhost> wrote:

> It loads the install.ram.gz (uncompressed and renamed netbsd.vax)
> kernel which then prints:
>
> stray interrupt: vector 0x18, ipl 31
>
> repeated ad ininitfum :(
>

I have seen this when the loading kernel overwrites the loader.

The loader has to be loaded into the first 4MB so that it will load
inside the scatter-gather map or QBUS map, so a kernel larger than 4MB
- the loader location will fail.

-chuck