Subject: Re: Boot Floppy Available
To: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
List: port-alpha
Date: 10/21/1997 20:15:41
As Chris G. Demetriou wrote...

> > Entering netbsd.gz at 0xfffffc0000300000...
> > 
> > Support for system type 6 is not present in this kernel.
> > Build a kernel with "options JESUS_KNOWS" and reboot.
> 
> I didn't realize when reading your previous message that there was a
> printf like this anywhere in the code.

So much for a monkey test ;-)

> This is ... not a very useful message.  What it's really doing is
> trying to tell you that your system is not supported at all by
> NetBSD/alpha, but it doesn't actually do that and instead confuses the
> issue.

In understood that part of course.

Wilko
_     ____________________________________________________________________
 |   / o / /  _  Bulte  email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko
 |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try'
------------------  Support your local daemons: run FreeBSD Unix  -----Yoda