Subject: Re: Booting a -current kernel?
To: John Klos <john@ziaspace.com>
From: Charlie Allom <charlie@rubberduck.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 05/10/2003 16:43:34
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 12:20:13AM -0500, John Klos wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm booting an old -current (from 18-Jan) and trying to compile and boot a
> new -current kernel, but it's not working. First, I get this when I try to
> make depends:
> 
> depending the kern library objects
> mkdep -a -D_LOCORE -I../../../../../../lib/libkern/arch/powerpc -Dmacppc
> -I../../. -I../../../../../../arch -I../../../../../.. -nostdinc -DLKM
> -DDIAGNOSTIC -DZS_CONSOLE_ABORT -DMAXUSERS=32 -D_KERNEL -D_KERNEL_OPT
> -traditional-cpp ../../../../../../lib/libkern/arch/powerpc/ffs.S
> ../../../../../../lib/libkern/arch/powerpc/strlen.S
> ../../../../../../lib/libkern/arch/powerpc/bzero.S
> ../../../../../../lib/libkern/arch/powerpc/bzero.S:33: assym.h: No such
> file or directory
> mkdep: compile failed.
> *** Error code 1
> 
> (Wasn't this fixed ages ago?) So I stick in assym.h manually and compile.

I don't get this, but ..

> Now, even when I compile GENERIC with no other options, I get this when I
> try to boot:
> 
> OF_open bootpath=scsi-int/sd@0
> read stage 2 blocks: 01234567. done!
> starting stage 2...
> 
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
> >> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Mon Jan 13 06:11:06 UTC 2003)
> no active package6760360DEFAULT CATCH!, code=FFF00700

Yes! Me too! :)

This is a beige G3. It has 1.6.1 installed and I'm trying to boot a
-current (of yesterday (1.6R)) and I get this. I'm going to trim it
down a little and see what happens.

  C.
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