On Thu, 15 May 1997, Charles F. Lepple wrote:

> Upon learning that NetBSD-current now has support for the Quadra 800,
> I decided to attempt to boot and see how far it would get.
> 
> Since I don't really want to nuke the HFS partition until I know this
> has a chance, I set the booter to use the Mac partition for reading
> the kernel. 
> 
> Whenever I try and boot a kernel, it prints "This kernel is not in a
> format that the booter can execute". I've tried the netbsd121 kernel,
> miscellaneous GENERIC-xx kernels, even gunzipping the netbsd121
> kernel, and I always get the same result.
> 
> I have been using booters with versions 1.10, 1.97 and 1.94 with
> approximately equal amounts of success.
> 
> Is there something blatantly obvious that I am missing? I have even
> checked to make sure that I am transferring the files in binary mode,
> but the sizes are correct.

They're tarred and gzipped, probably.  Since NetBSD's installer will only
install tar archives, the standard practice has been to create a .tgz file
containing the kernels.  Try grabbing suntar (or maybe even Stuffit
expander with the enhanced thing) and extracting the kernel with that
(after ungzipping it).  If that doesn't work, make sure that your gzip
program is ungzipping in binary mode.


Hope that's the problem,
David