Subject: Re: INSTALL kernel size [and my 4/110] :o)
To: Michael Wolfson <mw34@cornell.edu>
From: Gerald Richter <glassman1@neonshadow.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 05/06/2000 07:56:13
Michael Wolfson wrote:
>
> At 6:40 AM -0700 5/6/00, you wrote:
>
> :)David Brownlee wrote:
> :)> Can you try booting the 1.4.2 ramdisk containing kernel?
> :)> Also, could you try a bootloader from a -current snapshot.
> :)
> :)Where on the ftp do I find a binary for that bootloader? Just tried the
> :)ramdisk for 1.4.2 and got a "bad format".... syramdisk ditto... Still
> :)using the 1.4.1 bootloader. I ungziped the images and left them sit in
> :)the root as "netbsd", hope that didn't cause the probs..
>
> Ai! Of course that's a problem. syramdisk is a boot floppy image with a
> bootloader, disklabel, and everything. You need:
> /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/sparc/binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL.gz
> or synetbsd-INSTALL.gz
My bad. :o) Anywho, the proper images both declare "this kernel does not
support the SUN4"...
-Gerald
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