On Tue, Sep 28, 2004 at 11:14:58AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 
>   Booting netbsd
>   3129244+98076+329904 [196000Illegal Instruction
> 
> I've been told that this is because of changes in the boot blocks;
> before I go to more trouble than I really want to, can anybody
> confirm?
> 

Yes, the kernel grew a bit too big for the old boot loader so you need
to install an updated one.  The boot loader is backward compatible so
you can boot the older kernels with the new loader.

-- 
Brett Lymn