2004-12-26 kl. 00.27 skrev John:

>> at the openfirmware prompt, if i type "boot netbsd -d" I'm able to
>> immediately enter the kernel debugger. However, if I type either "boot
>> netbsd-1.6 -d" or "boot netbsd-2.0 -d", the respective installation
>> kernels boot without entering the kernel debugger. Is there something 
>> I'm
>> missing?

>No, the installation kernels cannot do this, as they have do not have 
>DDB (I would guess). I've only tried doing this with the 2.0 GENERIC 
>kernel, which works well.
>If you wish to use the workaround to run 2.0 you could perhaps just 
>build from source or download the binary sets and install manually.

i'm not quite sure how to do a manual install of the binary sets. Do I 
just copy the necessary sets into / and unpack them? I'm not sure if that 
would work since I'm not able to boot any of the provided 2.0 kernels 
except for the install kernel.