On Tue, 9 Apr 1996 15:11:16 -0500 (CDT) 
 Blake Wickliffe <blakew@arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:

[ cc'd to port-sparc, because that's a good place to discuss this ]

 > I'm trying to run NetBSD on a Sun SPARCStation ELC.  I've gotten all of
 > the binaries into place and gotten the filesystems all set up but when I
 > try to boot the system, the bootprogram decides it doesnt like the kernel
 > (ie, I get a boot failed error).  Kadb gives me a cryptic message about
 > ELF problems when I use it to try to load the kernel, and strip won't even
 > touch the kernel.  Anyone else had this problem?  Better yet, has anyone
 > solved this problem?  Please, share your feelings wth the group...:)
 > OK, thanks.

Sounds like you're trying to use Solaris boot blocks.  You need to use 
SunOS 4 or (preferably) NetBSD boot blocks.

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