Re: Kernel booting failures

[larry moore <ljmoore%wightman.ca@localhost>]

On 20/07/10 04:29 PM, John Klos wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I have a Quadra 630 on which I've been testing NetBSD 5.1 (RC3, at the
> moment). I've been having trouble booting a recent kernel. The Booter
> under MacOS has been giving me:
>
> Failed to set kernel symbol _boothowto.
>
> for NetBSD-5.1_RC2 and 5.1_RC3 kernels (from ftp.netbsd.org and
> self-built), and has been telling me "the kernel is not in a
> recognized format" or the likes regarding a kernel from the netbsd-5
> tree from nyftp.netbsd.org from the 19th of July. The most recent
> kernel I can boot is a self made one from 28-June-2010 (RC2).
>
> Does anyone have any ideas about where to look for a solution?
>
> Some more information: MacOS is 8.1, Booter is 2.0.1a1 (plus I've
> tried Booter marked 2.0.0 which comes from the netbsd-5 source tree),
> the boot drive is on the SCSI bus, and the first partition is 63 gigs.
> Booter is given 10240k of memory and the system has 196 megs of memory.
>
> If I move a non-working kernel to the HFS boot partition and tell
> Booter to load that, it boot just fine.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> John Klos
I'm running 5.1r3 on a Quadra 610, 68Mb RAM, using MacOS 7.6.
Three SCSI HDDs on system, one pure MacOS; one 1G swap and 1 3.2G root.
Tight fit.

I manage to hang the terminal ( NFS an ext3, )
ssh in and reboot,
cycle the power to restart once the white screen starts,
and then the next boots fail.

If/When I re - Install the netbsd , normal boot resumes using Boot 2.0.0.