Subject: Generic won't boot
To: None <dej@eecg.toronto.edu>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 03/30/1995 10:13:47
> From: David Jones <dej@eecg.toronto.edu>
> Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 10:01:52 -0500
> I FTPed netbsd-gen.gz fresh from ftp.netbsd.org yesterday. I panic with
>
> Watchdog reset!
>
> even before it prints out the "real memory".
Maybe the kernel image file got corrupted somewhere?
It boots fine on my Sun3/260 ...
> Sun3/260 with 2.3 boot ROM. Next step is to trace the startup code and add
> code to checksum the text segment and touch (sum is useless) the data and
> bss segments to make sure the MMU is set up OK.
Ugh. That's a pain! (I've had to do it before...)
Can you rebuild kernels? Shall I put up another one?
Gordon