Earlier, I was using the version that came with the 1.6.1 distribution. 
  However, since I later ran build.sh, I am now using the version that 
was built from the netbsd-1-6 cvs tag.  Neither worked for me on any 
kernels other than the one supplied in the 1.6.1 distribution.

I've rebuilt kernels numerous times on 32-bit sparcs in the past, and 
never encountered this problem.

- Bill

On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 11:11 Asia/Bangkok, Matt Thomas wrote:

> At 08:59 PM 10/1/2003, Bill Dorsey wrote:
>> I'm unable to boot any of the kernels I build under NetBSD 
>> 1.6.1/Sparc64.
>>
>> Here's what I've tried so far:
>>
>> 1)  cvs update -d -P -r netbsd-1-6 /usr/src
>> 2)  cd /usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/conf
>> 3)  cp GENERIC TEST
>> 4)  config TEST
>> 5)  cd ../compile/TEST
>> 6)  make depend; make
>> 7)  mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
>> 8)  mv netbsd /netbsd
>> 9)  shutdown -r now
>>
>> The loader prints the following message on the screen:
>>
>> Rebooting with command: boot netbsd
>> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a  File and args: netbsd
>> NetBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock
>> ..>> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.5
>> >> (devnull@lila.com, Sat Sep 27 01:53:56 PDT 2003)
>> loadfile: reading header
>> unknown executable format
>> Program terminated
>
> What version of ofwboot are you using?  1.6 is current.
>
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