Subject: booting miniroot.fs failure on U1/143 (NetBSD 1.6.2)
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Brian Hechinger <wonko@4amlunch.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/04/2004 07:52:29
good morning everyone!!

being all excited about the release of 2.0, i thought i would do my share and
put it on a box and play with it.  this, of course, requires that i install
something else first, so i descided to go with 1.6.2.

not having the best luck however.  i wrote the miniroot to disk from the copy
of Solaris9 that currently runs on the box:

dd if=miniroot.fs of=/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s0 bs=4k conv=sync

then i try to boot it, and i get:

Rebooting with command: boot disk1:a netbsd -s                        
Boot device: /sbus/espdma@e,8400000/esp@e,8800000/sd@1,0:a  File and args: netbsd -s
NetBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock
.Inode not directory
Fast Data Access MMU Miss
ok 

i'm clueless as to what the problem could be.  any hints?

thanks!!

-brian
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