Re: Trouble running 3.1 GENERIC kernel

[Håkan Thörngren <hth%blixtmail.se@localhost>]

Thank you for taking the time to answer, the port-cats list seems a bit 
quiet...

On 2006-12-03, at 12.49, Nick Hudson wrote:

> On Saturday 02 December 2006 21:43, Håkan Thörngren wrote:
> > I am having trouble booting NetBSD after installing on my cats. [..]
>
> It looks like the kernel has got too big for cyclone. If you're brave 
> you
> could try ABLE, but keep the cylone flash program available via disk 
> or cdrom
> just in case.

I do not feel that brave yet and it seems to be something you need to 
pay for too. I also recall reading that there are/were issues with 
ABLE/NetBSD.

> > 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.

A smaller kernel would be very highly appreciated.

One solution seems to be to cross compile a (smaller) kernel.  It did 
not look too complicated if one have NetBSD 1.6.  The closest I can get 
to that now is an Amiga 3000 with 1.6.1 that needs a couple of cables 
to connect to the local network.  I hope that I can find those cables 
during next week.

/Håkan

> >
>
> Nick