Hi,

  I recently tried to boot NetBSD-1.2 on my SparcStation 5.  I'm currently
running SunOS 4.1.3_U.  Here is what I did:

  I had an extra 100 meg partition so I put in a copy of netbsd and
untarred base.tar.gz into that partition.  (/dev/sd1a)

  I then tried to bood from sd1a by saying:

     boot disk1:a netbsd -s

The rom monitor then proceeds to tell me that the file read off the disk is
not an executable file.  I tried a stripped version of netbsd also.  I then
tried a copy of the miniroot with the 1.2 distribution.  In all cases, netbsd
is declared to "not an executable file".

Did I forget to set some ROM environment variable?  

Does anyone have any helpful hints?


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