Hi Ingolf,

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Ingolf Koch wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 02:50:16PM +0200, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> > For you convenience, a fresh sparc snapshot has been uploaded to
> > 
> > 	`ftp.netbsd.org/ftp/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc/snapshot/19990810'
> 
> On my Tadpole, I tried to boot from the miniroot file
> system without success:
> 
> ok boot -s
> ... [no swap turned on]
> # gzip -d < miniroot-14I.fs.gz | dd of=/dev/rsd0b bs=20b conv=sync
> # halt
> ok boot disk:b netbsd -s
> Boot device: ...[this is ok]
> Instruction Access Exception
> 
> What's wrong with this?

Hmmm.. maybe a `sync' before you `halt'ed? There could be some info left
in buffers ya'know.... the `sync' parameter doesn't help you with this.

Regards,

Reinoud