Re: NetBSD on DECsystem 5000/240

Jason Thorpe <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Feb 2024 14:25:25 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mips.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Jan 21, 2024, at 1:18 AM, Magnus Lindholm <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> During the weekend I powered up an old DECsystem 5000/240 and decided
> to try installing NetBSD. At first I tried 9.3 using the diskimage
> installation. This failed in a kernel panic, Older versions like 5.2.3
> which worked fine, however 6.1.5 failed in a kernel panic similar to
> 9.3. Finally I installed 10.0_RC3 which worked fine! So at least if
> you're a PMAX owner NetBSD 10.0 seems to work better than previous
> releases, at least as far as the installation goes.

Can you give a few more details about the crash?

-- thorpej