Is it possible you've created a partition that does not fit
	exactly on cylinder partitions? In order to work with SunOS
	disklabels, NetBSD/space must use partitions that fit on
	exact cylinders.

		David/absolute

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On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, /Eric McWhorter wrote:

> I got my sparc 2 to remote boot via a crossover patch cord from my PC.
> 
> I used to work with NetBSD/pmax and assumed the installation process would
> be the same.  I may have made a boo-boo in the process.
> 
> I ran disklabel with -r, which after reading the docs I discovered is a 
> no-no on the sparc port.  Oops.  Am I screwed?  The system still has
> the old sunos partitions.  I can newfs these partitions and copy files
> over, but the disk doesn't seem to be bootable. :-(  Can I install boot 
> blocks from NetBSD/sparc onto a sparc?  
> 
> The disklabel executable I used gives me an error message, "Label magic 
> number or checksum is wrong! (disklabel or kernel is out of date?)".  
> I thought maybe there was a goof and the wrong /sbin/disklabel was 
> copied into the base.tgz file I used for my executables, so I tried
> recompiling 1.3.2 from source on my PC.  I got a kernel to build and
> could boot the kernel (had to beat on config to get it to compile), 
> but many programs complain about breakage (as did config) and I'm just 
> not interested in running down all the problems.  I used the following
> compiler:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/19981105/binary/sets/comp.tgz
> My NetBSD/i386 box (runs 1.3.2) can compile the entire tree from the 
> same source files that the sparc fails to compile.
> 
> To boot the system, I used the following files:
> kernel:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/19981105/binary/kernel/netbsd.GENERIC_SCSI3.gz
> executables:
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/19981105/binary/sets/*
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Eric McWhorter
> emcwhorter@xsis.xerox.com
>