Subject: Booting a Performa 636
To: netbsd.org <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: William O Ferry <WOFerry+@CMU.EDU>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/03/1997 20:13:17
I've been interested in at least getting a kernel to boot on my
machine for a long time, but something always manages to go wrong. Now
that I just got a SCSI drive for my machine, I figured I'd give it
another shot. Unfortunately, this drive is a Bernoulli 44MB drive. Is
it possible to put some sort of miniroot on this drive?
Also, where can I get a kernel that has a good chance of working on
the 636 (I know about the LC040 problems, so I know it won't do much
more than boot, but I haven't even been able to get THAT far yet. Even
with the LC040, the kernel should at least load, right???), and a booter
that likes it? I have 3 versions of the Booter on my machine, 1.9.5,
1.9.4, and a 1.9 that's hacked for a large miniroot. All 3 of them
won't load any kernel I've ever tried feeding to them. Every kernel, no
matter how I grab it (fetch binary or ascii, copying over via NFS using
MachTen, AppleShare) fails with the bootlog:
Logging to bootlog
Booting...sizeof struct exec = 32
Boot error: This kernel is not in a format which the booter can execute.
*********** Boot Stopped. ***********
I've tried this both under 7.5.1 and 7.5.3R2.
Somebody please help??? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Will Ferry
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