On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 04:46:18PM +0100, Job Hanssen wrote:

> I'm suffering from the BB-Clock y2K problem (battery backed-up clock not
> recognized) on my A4000/060

... possible...

> and therfore can't boot into NetBSD anymore to
> patch the kernel sources and compile a new kernel.

Oh yes, you can... this was never "not booting" problem, just a
"wrong date shown" problem. Why do you think you can't? What error
symptoms/ messages are you seeing?

> Now I was wondering if I could use the generic kernel in the online NetBSD
> 1.4.1 (binary) distribution to boot into NetBSD from AmigaOS, then apply the
> patch and compile a new kernel. But this would of course only work if the
> kernel in the binary distribution has already been patched. So obviously, my
> question is: is it?

No, it isn't.

> If not, is there some other place I could download a patched generic 1.4.1.
> kernel?

In case this is really your problem: you can try the kernel from the
1.4.2_ALPHA snapshot, which is fixed.

> Would it be harmful to boot with a current kernel?

partially, yes. for example, ps, w, netstat and similar problems would have
minor problems. If you don't have COMPAT_14 in the kernel, you'll have
problems for system calls that have changes, because the old versions won't 
be in the kernel anymore.

Regards,
	-is