[rescue] best NetBSD support

Eric Dittman dittman at dittman.net
Tue Jun 18 08:01:29 CDT 2002


> I have run NetBSD on more then one 4000/90 and never had anyone die on me,
> that problem seem to wery limited as far as I can see. And it does not
> kill a 4000/90 it just makes it unable to autoboot into the OS, due to
> some error during the selfcheck.

Not only is it unable to autoboot, it also corrupts the firmware
so the machine can't be correctly identified from the firmware,
which causes VMS grief.

Since the mainboard must be replaced to fix the problem, I'd
call that killed.
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Eric Dittman
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