[Simh] Panic while attempting to boot a NetBSD ISO

[Gregg Levine]

Hello!
Not yet. I only snagged the first three of the 5 series that I could
find. For example 5.1.3 worked as far as being booted from the stock
release. (Installation is next.) I'm going to try 5.1.4 and 5.1.5
next. Also 5.2 and stuff between them, and including your 7
suggestion.

And Mark? I'm interested in the differences between why the last known
release on the SIMH website worked as far as booting the CD image
goes, and what's currently inside GIT does not.
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Gregg C Levine gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com
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On Sun, Feb 7, 2016 at 2:30 PM, David Brownlee <abs at absd.org> wrote:
> On 7 February 2016 at 17:53, Rhialto <rhialto at falu.nl> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Definitely - there was a time when it booted fine on VAXstation 4000
> and similar but not so much on older machines which really used VMB (I
> was the cause of one such breakage when I tried bumping the default
> disklabel partitions to 16), but all that was cleared up before 7.0
>
> Gregg - have you tried the stock NetBSD-7 iso from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.0/images/ ?
>
> David