Subject: Re: boot problems
To: Saku Setala <setala@elisa.fi>
From: Wayne Knowles <wknowles@paradise.net.nz>
List: port-mipsco
Date: 05/04/2001 20:41:33
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Saku Setala wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have copied 20001004 kernel to root of my RiscOS partition, and this happens:
>
>     Monitor: Version 5.43 OPT Mon May 13 17:31:12 PDT 1991 root
> Memory size: 67108864 (0x4000000) bytes, 64 MB
> Icache size: 32768 (0x8000) bytes
> Dcache size: 32768 (0x8000) bytes
> >> boot dksd(,,0)/netbsd
> 210192+58672+230560 entry: 0xa0600000
> Standalone Shell: Version 5.03 OPT Tue Apr 16 21:09:10 EDT 1991 root
>
> Loading dksd(,,0)/netbsd
> dksd(,,0)/netbsd: inappropriate byte order
> Can't load dksd(,,0)/netbsd
> sash:
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?

You are booting the NetBSD ELF format kernel file.  The standard
bootstrap can only understand ECOFF format files.

The 20001004 snapshot has a NetBSD style bootstrap it places in the volume
header... see my other mail message on how to get the installation kernel
loaded on a machine.  That kernel file you used above assumes the NetBSD
bootstrap has been installed.

Wayne