In article <20050225145502.41B9563B843@narn.netbsd.org>,
Andreas Gustafsson <gnats-bugs@netbsd.org> wrote:
>The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/27070; it has been noted by GNATS.
>
>From: gson@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson)
>To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
>Cc: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
>Subject: Re: port-sparc/27070
>Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:54:32 +0200
>
> I am getting the same error as reported in port-sparc/27070 when
> attempting to upgrade a SPARCstation IPX with 64 MB of memory from
> NetBSD 1.4 to the NetBSD 2.0 release straight off an FTP mirror:
> 
>    SPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard
>    ROM Rev. 2.6, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #2177749.
>    Ethernet address 8:0:20:d:e:4a, Host ID: 57213ad5.
> 
>    Rebooting with command: net netbsd                                    
>    Boot device: /sbus/le@0,c00000   File and args: netbsd
>    13a00 
>    >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.14
>    >> (builds@build, Thu Dec  2 01:42:46 UTC 2004)
>    Booting netbsd
>    Trying BOOTP protocol... net_open: client addr: 10.0.0.19
>    net_open: subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
>    net_open: net gateway: 10.0.0.1
>    net_open: server addr: 10.0.0.1
>    ip address: 10.0.0.19, hostname: gus.araneus.fi, netmask:
>255.255.255.0, gateway: 10.0.0.1
>    root addr=10.0.0.1 path=
>    read program headers
>    Cannot load netbsd: error=27
> 
> In other words, the problem is not limited to 16 MB machines, and it's
> still present in the release.

The "read program headers" error indicates that reading the kernel failed.

christos