Subject: Re: New quadra scsi kernel
To: Christoph Ewering <eweri@uni-paderborn.de>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/03/1997 09:20:33
Christoph Ewering wrote:
>
> Hello everybody!
>
> During the testing of Allens new kernels, I had problems with X.
> Usualy i use the madhatter #40 and have no problem with X.
>
> Allen ask me to try a current GENERIC kernel, but they did not boot at
> all.
> I tried the GENERIC #37 and #38 from ftp.netbsd.org/..../arch/mac68k/
> but the Bootloader and "Das Boot" did not boot this kernels.
> The Bootlaoder said something about wrong or unknown kernel-format.
>
> I've downloaded the kernels with fetch in binary mode, use cpin to get
> it onto the NetBSD partition, gunziped and renamed it to netbsd.
>
> Whats wrong?
> Maybe the kernels at ftp.netbsd.org/..../arch/mac68k/ are corrupted?
The kernels come in .tar.gz format so that you can easily install them
using the installer, I believe. You probably still need to untar the
kernel for it to work.
Hope this helps.
Later.
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Colin Wood cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6 Intel Corporation
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