> 
> I've had some success booting NetBSD on my 4.4BSD system.  I was able
> to get the kernel to compile several weeks ago, and after some further
> effort, was able to get it to run init.   Unfortunately, once it ran
> init, it seemed to hang.   I was able to trace this to the serial
> driver, but then things got hectic for a few weeks and I had to stop.
> 
> Finally, on Sunday, I spent some more time with it and discovered that
> the problems with the serial driver went away if I set CLOCAL and
> skipped cooked output processing.   The CLOCAL part might have to do
> with my cabling, but skipping cooked output processing is a bit weird,
> and I suspect a bug in the line discipline.   I haven't looked into it
> any further, though - I was more interested in getting the thing
> running.
> 
> I ran into compatibility problems with mount (sound familiar,
> Jonathan? :') which turned out to be easy to get around.   I also
> found that NetBSD insists on there being a label on a disk before
> it'll mount it, even on the C partition.   This is kind of a drag -
> can anybody explain why the code to make up a default partition was
> removed?   I'm not saying that's wrong -- just curious...
> 
> Anyway, after fixing the mount code and re-enabling the default
> partition mapper, I was able to get all my disks mounted and fsck'd.
> I still run into hangs which I suspect are related to the serial
> driver, but I haven't looked into them yet.   I was experiencing the
> same sort of hangs on 4.4BSD.   :'(
> 
> I'm going to grab the latest tar files from sun-lamp and see if I can
> get things working a bit better.   If anybody has any comments or
> observations, I'd like to hear them...   I owe a couple of people on
> this list some changes that I needed to get off of my 4.4BSD
> partition.   Now that I have a kernel that can look at it again, I'll
> try to get those out as soon as possible.   Sorry for the delay...
> 
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so have you added the exec support for bsd 44 pmax binaries?

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