Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

[David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 6 September 2010 15:29, Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> On Sep 3, Â9:24pm, danno%serverunderground.com@localhost (Dan Oglesby) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
>
> | The floppy images from 201009010000Z error with:
> |
> | Cannot load netbsd: Âerror=103
> |
> | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
> |
> | The floppy images from 201009030000Z error with:
> |
> | Cannot load netbsd: Âerror=27
> |
> | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
> |
> | Using the same floppies, and the same machine that wrote the previous 
> floppies, I can make a set of NetBSD-1.6.2 floppies and boot the SS2 up to 
> installation, so the hardware and media appear to work.
>
> Progress!
>
> 27 == EFBIG. The kernel has gotten too big or you don't have enough memory
> to load it. Perhaps we can make a small kernel for it.

Is the SS2 memory map unhelpful in this case - could it be trying to
load into a 4MB contiguous block?