I used the chmod'ed the kernel to 777, and it's booted for me too!
Thanks, Nick!
Thanks, Joe! :)
On May 19, 2007, at 11:21 PM, Nick Sheppard wrote:

> Joachim Thiemann <joachim.thiemann <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>>
>> I've put the kernel and the config file on my web server,
>> https://fornost.dyndns.org/ (note the https since I don't want to  
>> open
>> port 80 on my firewall)
>>
>> Guess which machine the kernel is hosted on  so be gentle please.
>>
>> Joe.
>
> I've downloaded your kernel and it boots!  Thank you!
>
> To get it into the G3, I copied it (netbsd.VINYAMAR) to a CD,  
> booted the G3
> using the installation kernel, copied netbsd.VINYAMAR to /  
> alongside the
> previous (freezing) netbsd, used chmod to change its permissions to  
> the same as
> the previous netbsd (I don't know if this is actually necessary),  
> restarted, and
> then booted the new kernel from OF with
>
>    boot hd:4,\ofwboot.xcf hd:5,/netbsd.VINYAMAR
>
> in other words exactly what I was doing before but with a different  
> kernel
> filename. It works!
>
> The new kernel does behave a little differently from the  
> installation kernel - I
> had to do
>
>    stty erase '^H'
>
> to get the delete key to work properly (as suggested in  
> INSTALL.html) but it has
> cured the freezing problem.  Now I'm going to read your config file  
> very
> carefully ...
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Nick
>
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