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

Subsequent to this, I've tried several additional things:

1)  fsck all filesystems (everything was fine)
2)  cd /usr/src; build.sh (took a long time, but at least I got all 
those security updates installed now...)
3)  tried building the kernel again with the new userland
4)  run /usr/mdec/binstall to install new bootloaders

None of the above steps enabled me to successfully boot anything other 
than the original kernel from the distribution sets.

Running 'file' on both kernels shows the same thing:

netbsd:               ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1 
(SYSV), statically linked, not stripped

Anyone have any thoughts or suggestions?  I already posed this question 
to the port-sparc64 group and received no replies.

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Bill Dorsey
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