The following reply was made to PR port-sparc/27070; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: gson@gson.org (Andreas Gustafsson)
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: Greg Oster <oster@cs.usask.ca>
Subject: Re: port-sparc/27070
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 16:54:32 +0200

 I am getting the same error as reported in port-sparc/27070 when
 attempting to upgrade a SPARCstation IPX with 64 MB of memory from
 NetBSD 1.4 to the NetBSD 2.0 release straight off an FTP mirror:
 
    SPARCstation IPX, No Keyboard
    ROM Rev. 2.6, 64 MB memory installed, Serial #2177749.
    Ethernet address 8:0:20:d:e:4a, Host ID: 57213ad5.
 
    Rebooting with command: net netbsd                                    
    Boot device: /sbus/le@0,c00000   File and args: netbsd
    13a00 
    >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.14
    >> (builds@build, Thu Dec  2 01:42:46 UTC 2004)
    Booting netbsd
    Trying BOOTP protocol... net_open: client addr: 10.0.0.19
    net_open: subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
    net_open: net gateway: 10.0.0.1
    net_open: server addr: 10.0.0.1
    ip address: 10.0.0.19, hostname: gus.araneus.fi, netmask: 255.255.255.0, gateway: 10.0.0.1
    root addr=10.0.0.1 path=
    read program headers
    Cannot load netbsd: error=27
 
 In other words, the problem is not limited to 16 MB machines, and it's
 still present in the release.
 -- 
 Andreas Gustafsson, gson@gson.org