Re: Help about installing NetBSD on a VAXstation 4000/90 (Cougar)

[Silas <silas%nocafe.net@localhost>]

Hi all.

I did some tests and have interesting results.

As I said, the results are the same with 7.1.2 (the first try), -current 
and 4.0.  I decided to give OpenBSD (5.8) a try and, after the netboot, 
it printed kernel information during the boot, but got stuck just after 
printing information about sd0.  So I decided to remove both HDD and 
CDROM drives and, surprisingly, OpenBSD resumed the boot procedure up to 
the install program.

So I concluded I'm with a defective hardware and removing the HDD and 
CDROM helped somehow (if they are not THE hardware that caused the 
problems).

Unfortunately, even after these modifications, NetBSD kernel doesn't 
print anything out after being loaded.  Is it handling some hardware 
errors wrongly somehow, like not timing out when expected?

--
Silas