Chris Jones wrote:
> On Wed, 6 May 1998, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> 
> > How about trying to boot from a gzipped kernel in the Booter folder? If it
> > works, it would tend to exonerate MacOS and the Booter, and then you could
> > look for problems with the NetBSD partition, (besides the obvious). 
> 
> Okay, I've tried both netbsd-GENERIC.gz and netbsd-GENERICSBC.gz from
> 1.3.1.  These were both ftp'd in binary mode directly to the Mac, and they
> seemed to gunzip without trouble, so they're probably not corrupt.  Both
> make the machine hang.
> 
> I don't actually have a BSD partition at this point, since I did a
> re-install of MacOS; I'm assuming that the kernel will at least be able to
> autoconfig without a partition to boot off of.

Ah.  I've noticed a problem with the Booter sometimes not liking gzipped
kernel files (well, gzip -9, that is).  Try gunzipping them and see if
that works.  Just make sure you gunzip them in binary mode....

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
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