On Tue, 09 Jan 1996 17:54:51 +0100 
 "Stefan Monnier" <stefan.monnier@lia.di.epfl.ch> wrote:

 > Does anybody have an idea what the problem is ?
 > (I fear this is due to NetBSD expecting a Solaris1.1 bootblock rather
 > than a Solaris2.4 bootblock).

Yah .. you can't load an a.out kernel with the Solaris 2.x boot code; it 
expects ELF, and that's why it lost.  NetBSD/sparc also has native boot 
code that preserves the symbol table for debugging, which is nice if you 
hack, but the Solaris 1.x boot code does work.

For a complete 1.1 installation kit of NetBSD/sparc, look at:

	ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.1/sparc/

I used it today ... it Works Great.

 > Is there an archive of this mailing list ? (majordomo doesn't seem to know
 > about it)

See http://www.NetBSD.ORG/MailingLists/index.html ... you can get to an 
archive from there...

 > PS: and what about the README.outdated (the only one available) which
 > talks about netbsd and netbds.scsi3 ? The current snapshot only has netbsd.
 > Is that a kernel corresponding to netbsd.scsi3 ?

The notes for 1.1 are updated.

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