Off hand one of two things:

1) You haven't installed a 1.4 userland and don't have NetBSD 1.3 compatability
in the kernel, or

2) You built a corrupted 1.4 userland.

I'm guessing #1.

Paul

Edwin Foo wrote:

> Hi again,
>
> I've finally managed to get my CATS board to boot the 1.4 kernel and get to
> a shell prompt, but I still can't mount /usr or cd into /etc. running mount
> results in it dying with some sort of syscall problem. cd'ing into /etc
> makes sh die the same way. I still don't have any idea as to what is going
> on. Has anyone else updated their CATS board this way and gotten it to work?
>
> -Edwin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Edwin Foo [mailto:efoo@crl.dec.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 7:25 PM
> To: 'port-arm32@netbsd.org'
> Subject: CATS 1.4 boot problem
>
> Hi all,
>
> I decided to take the plunge and update our CATS board to 1.4. I newfs'ed
> the drive, then untarred all the sets and kernel on it, using another
> machine (i386). Then I stuck the drive back in the CATS box and booted.
>
> The kernel boots, but hangs right after it says "root file system ffs" or
> something similar. All the devices seem to probe okay. Did I do something
> wrong? This approach worked fine with the October 1998 1.3.2 distribution
> that came with the CATS board when I tried it last year.
>
> -Edwin