[Simh] Panic while attempting to boot a NetBSD ISO

Rhialto rhialto at falu.nl
Sun Feb 7 12:53:08 EST 2016


On Sun 07 Feb 2016 at 12:41:19 -0500, Gregg Levine wrote:
> In this case it was to try and boot an image
> of 5.1.3 and it worked. I'm going to need to spend more time on this.

I think there may have some NetBSD versions that did not boot on all VAX
models. This was due to some confusion about how VMB and/or boot ROMs
would treat boot sectors.

See the comments in VAX/VMB-exe-Patch.com for some information on that.

-Olaf.
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