On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 05:59:45PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Hi,
> I tried upgrading my ss20 (MP, 2x 390z50) today. I cross-built a distribution,
> and installed the new kernel. It hung at boot time (just after the boot
> code calls the kernel entry point, before the copyright lines are
> printed). So I updated the boot code, just in case. No changes for the
> new kernel, but this new code also fails to boot the old kernel.
> It prints:
> OBP version 3, revision 2.15 (plugin rev 2)
> hangs there for a few 10s of seconds, and eventually dies with a watchdog
> reset. stop-A doesn't help. boot -d doesn't either.
> So I setup netboot from the snapshot:
> pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/20030331-1.6Q
> netbooting with the boot.net and (UP) kernel from here gives the same
> result.

More tests: the snapshot's boot.net can't load the 1.6.1 GENERIC either
(it ends with "Program terminated").
The 1.6.1 boot.net can load the 1.6.1 GENERIC, but the snapshot GENERIC
dies in the same way as with the snapshot boot.net

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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