>>That is enough indeed. I guess my next step should be to update 
>>restorecd to environment based on -current. I still would like to find 
>>out why 2.1 does not work though.
> 
> 
> I'll try to build INSTALL-like kernel on 2.x and check how it goes
> on my RaQ2. If it works, I'll send a pullup request for netbsd-2 branch.
Thanks for that.

>>Netbsd bootloader is just fine, but it cant load kernels over the 
>>network and therefore can't be used as a first step to load a large 
>>kernel. But if 3.0 works I do not see a need to do any first step loader.
> 
> 
> I see, maybe the way to go is to add kloader(4) support to
> cobalt kernels. It should be trivial though I have no idea
> how much work is needed for now.

I will look in to that, I am curious about that too.

> 
> 
>>The config utility that comes with 2.1 crashes when processing config 
>>files. I had to build the one that comes with the kernel. Could that be 
>>a problem?
> 
> 
> How does it crash?
> 
> config(8) (which is now config(1) in -current BTW) tool should be
> sync'ed with target kernel sources. see
> http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-build.html
> for details.
I did use complete 2.1 userland that I downloaded from netbsd torrent. I 
downloaded iso image and used that to install 2.1
The config crashes like this - when I try to run it with or without 
parameters it dumps core with following message:
Bus error (core dumped)

I don't know how netbsd maps mips exceptions but if this is a bus error 
exception, config is accessing non existent memory or hardware. Although 
I would expect TLB exception first because I would imagine that netbsd 
is using memory protection.

> 
> 
>>On netbsd site there are daily directories for all of the oldre releases 
>>as well. They seems to have newer files than official release directory. 
>>What is in these  directories?
> 
> 
> http://www.NetBSD.org/Releases/release-map.html
> mentions about these releases and snapshots?
It does mention about daily snapshots. Thanks. So that means I would be 
better off getting my sets from these directories rather than from the 
torrent. I will upgrade and see how it goes.

Thank you for the info.

Alex