Re: Upgrade from 3.0 to 4.0 quandry. . .

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 29, 2008, at 23:39, jim smith wrote:

> Here's the quandry: how do I get the new ofwboot.xcf and netbsd kernel
> to the old HFS partition?  I've tried boot the 4.0 kernel from CD,
> which works for booting the kernel, but won't continue on to loading
> things from wd0.  Apparently there isn't enough information there to
> tell it to 'move on' to wd0.

You don't need the kernel on the HFS partition. If it's old HFS you  
can use hfstools from pkgsrc - ofwboot.xcf from 4.0 can load 3.0  
kernels. And finally - you can always build a kernel with hardwired  
root filesystem.

have fun
Michael

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