Subject: New kernel butting heads with Booter?
To: None <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: John Wittkoski <jpw@netscape.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/07/1996 01:46:17
Ok, I sup'd the newest version of the kernel last night
and did a clean rebuild (twice!) but every kernel I
make dies with an illegal instruction before the Booter
even loads the entire thing. That is, instead of showing:

(number) + (number) + (number) + whatever then env dump

I just get:

(number) +

and then get dumped into Macsbug, if it's loaded. A
similar thing happens on both the machines I normally
test with (a II and IIsi). All previously built kernels
work on the same hardware. I haven't sup'd in a few weeks, 
but I did do a _clean_ rebuild.

The only difference that I can think of is that this
kernel is about 1.15MB in size and the previous kernels
I made were around 960KB. Is it possible that the
Booter isn't allocating enough space to dump the kernel
into? Increasing the Booter memory size didn't help, but
that may not matter depending on how the booter does
things.

Just a guess, but I can't think of any other reason that
the boot would die so early.

	--John