T H Pineapple wrote the following dribble about "This ROM sucks^H^H^H^Hkicks." on Tue Jun 27 13:39:00 1995
> 
> 
> Re Karl Stenerud launching this missive into Netosphere...
> 
> > My a3k has NEVER been able to boot into netbsd while under the influence
> > of a softkick.
> 
> It gets weirder.  Fair enough, I'd expect NetBSD to be trashing the
> ROM image with its own allocation when loadbsd fires up from AmigaDOS
> for the first time <hence when after a 'halt' and 3-key the machine
> freaks out, can't find the ROM and so reloads it and gets AmigaDOS
> back in> but maybe loadbsd has trouble with softkick'd machines when
> loading in big kernels?  <Generic fails on both the small and big A3k
> machines, but the cut-down kernel I'm currently using seems to work
> fine, apart from NFS, &tc...> I'll experiment.  Comments, anyone?

My machine is softkicked, and I load a 700k kernel with no trouble ...
how big is generic these days?  (I haven't even glanced at GENERIC in
a few weeks).
 
> Incidentally, kernal-rebuild is now proceeding c/o config.new <doh!
> Thanks Michael ;->
> 
> THP.  Compiling in top wormgear

If ya get the dist from 06-03 (or around there), config is config.new and
config.old is config.

-Chris
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