Subject: Re: Does NetBSD 2.0 work with the Raq2?
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Markus W Kilbinger <kilbi@rad.rwth-aachen.de>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 01/06/2005 23:31:55
>>>>> "John" == John Klos <john@ziaspace.com> writes:

    John> Now I have a 2.0 kernel straight from ftp.NetBSD.org
    John> untargzipped and re-gzipped on the disk as /boot/netbsd.gz
    John> (which is what I did for the kernel that's on the NFS
    John> server). However, trying to boot this way:

    John> bfd /boot/netbsd.gz

    John> gives me:

    John> Decompressing  done

    John> but nothing else at all. Am I missing something, or is the
    John> kernel not working?

I guess 2.0's (GENERIC) kernel is too big (> 1000000 Bytes). I've
(cross) compiled a reduced (nfs) kernel for this purposes...

    John> I guess I'll try a 1.6.2 kernel next...

This kernel seems to be small enough...

Markus.