Subject: Re: Boot program for sun4
To: Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/16/1996 10:44:19
On Fri, 16 Feb 1996 14:38:42 +0100 (MET) 
 Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se> wrote:

 > Does the NetBSD version of /boot work as a netboot primary kernel for a 
 > sun 4/330. It wors fine with our diskless ELC:s, but gives an "illegal 
 > instruction" on a sun 4/330.

Yah, it works.  What you need to do on the sun4 is remove the first 32 
bytes (a.out header) of the boot program:

	dd if=/usr/mdec/boot of=/boot skip=1 bs=32

Also, look at the "binstall" script that deals with installing the boot 
code for you...

Ciao.

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