That was a strange problem.  I'm not sure where the booter was finding that
1.4.2 kernel.
On my disk I just had one root&usr partition and on swap partition.  I
created those
using the sysinst kernel.  But when I was in MacOS, I checked with mkfs to
see what it
thought the file systems looked like.  I found that the mkfs program did not
see the
swap partition as swap.  It showed it as another root&usr partition.
  So this made me think that the booter was also seeing my swap partition as
a root&usr
partition.  And that the booter was finding an old 1.4.2 kernel in there and
booting that
instead of my 1.5 kernel.  I don't know if that is possible, but that 1.4.2
kernel had to
come from somewhere.

So I finally got 1.5 to boot but when I tried to run Xwindows the backspace
key wouldn't
work.  Usually i can just do:

#stty erase ^?

to set the backspace key correctly, but with 1.5 I couldn't do this.  The
backspace key
was not displaying just a ^? , but it was displaying multiple characters.
Something like this ^?]] , I can't remember exactly.
Has any one else had trouble with the backspace key in X with 1.5?


    Guy


-----Original Message-----
From: port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org
[mailto:port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Todd Vierling
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 6:27 AM
To: Henry B. Hotz
Cc: Guy Santiglia; ender@macbsd.com; port-mac68k@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: 1.4.2 kernel in the 1.5 ftp directory


On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:

: >Mine contains the string with 1.4.2.  But, on second thought I'd better
: >double check the booter to make sure i'm looking on  sd1 and not
: >sd0.   Thanks for your help.
:
: The kernel is distributed in two places (why?).  Are we talking about
: the kernels in the binary/sets directory or the kernels in the
: binary/kernel directory?

The binary/sets/kern.tgz is intended for use by installers, and can contain
just one kernel.  It's the machine-independent location for a "GENERIC"
kernel image.

However, the mac68k boots in a rather odd way compared to most other ports.
It needs a kernel not wrapped in a tarball.  Additionally, two variations of
GENERIC are supplied for slightly different purposes (GENERIC/GENERICSBC).
However, the GENERIC one *should* be identical to what is in kern.tgz.

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