Subject: Re: kernel won't start on i386
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Jim Bernard <jbernard@mines.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 05/11/2001 15:12:45
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:25:18PM -0600, Jim Bernard wrote:
>
> I did manage to get a kernel going, however, by building it on another system.
> Now, both systems are (or were) running kernels and userlands built on March
> 15 from sources updated that day (at similar, but not identical times), and
> both had their sources updated this morning (at similar, but not identical
> times). The pentium pro system is the target for the moment, and it builds
> kernels that it can't boot. The pentium system builds kernels that the
> pentium pro system _can_ boot.
Oops. It seems the pentium system's userland is still back in the stone
age at Feb. 17. So, maybe something in the toolchain was subtly broken on
March 15.