Subject: Re: Unable to boot new kernels
To: Rob Quinn <rquinn@sec.sprint.net>
From: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 05/07/2003 18:50:19
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 02:16:46PM -0400, Rob Quinn wrote:
>   I recently threw out my Sparc5 and moved to sparc64 on an Ultra10.  I was
> happy with NetBSD-current for about a week, but since about the 2nd I've been
> unable to make a bootable kernel.  They all die like this (copied by hand):
> 
>     Boot device: disk  File and args:
>     NetBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock
>     ..>> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.6
>     >> (rquinn@....., Tue May  6 12:12:45 EDT 2003)
>     loadfile: reading header
>     unknown executable format
>     Program terminated
> 

ofwboot is unable to load a kernel. I'd suspect build environment.

	Andrey

>   My kernel from May 2nd works fine.  I've tried several fixes since then,
> including a new bootblock, several complete rebuilds from source (throwing out
> all of my /usr/obj and tooldir), and cross-compiling a GENERIC kernel from my
> current i386 laptop.  My boot prom is "OpenBoot 3.25".  Is anyone else having
> problems?