Subject: Re: Testers needed for upcoming 3.1 release
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.ca>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/07/2006 12:26:08
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> Just FYI, older (pre-2.0) bootloader (bootxx + ofwboot) can't load
> lager kernels than ~5MB.
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/macppc/stand/ofwboot/Makefile#rev1.42
Ahh, that would be it -- I'm running the bootloader from whichever the
last release was that the install image fit on a single floppy disk. I was
unable to upgrade the bootstrap using the older installboot/kernel
combination, and the newer installboot binary failed on the older kernel.
Thanks for the info!
Cheers,
Jared