On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:43, H=E5kan Th=F6rngren wrote:
> I am having trouble booting NetBSD after installing on my cats.
>
> I am using Cyclone 1.3 and installs from a CD.  (I first tried
> netbooting, but I suffered severe trouble tftp-ing from my Mac OS X
> server.  It seems that as soon there is a transmit error, it fails to
> recover...  I have to start over and many many attempts are needed.
> Well I switched to using a NetBSD 3.1 CD instead.)
>
> It boots the installation kernel and it allows me to install sets.
> Everything seems just fine until I decide to reboot using the GENERIC
> kernel installed on the HD.  It loads, but immediately stops,
> sometimes it says it catched and exception, but most of the times I
> get something like:
>
> boot> boot wd0:/netbsd.aout
> Loading wd0:/netbsd.aout to 100000000
> netbsd: 467356+73728+213836+[360048XXXXXXXXXXXXXXboot>
>
> Where XXX... is some blinking reverse video garbage characters.

It looks like the kernel has got too big for cyclone. If you're brave you=20
could try ABLE, but keep the cylone flash program available via disk or cdr=
om=20
just in case.

> I have tried all supplied kernels, the only that works is the
> installation kernel.  Has anyone else succeeded in booting the GENERIC
> 3.1 kernel?

I'll try 3.1 on my cats when I get a chance and see what's best to do.

> (Previously I have only used it diskless, and that was a couple of
> years ago.)
>
> /H=E5kan

Nick