At 08:59 PM 10/1/2003, Bill Dorsey wrote:
>I'm unable to boot any of the kernels I build under NetBSD 1.6.1/Sparc64.
>
>Here's what I've tried so far:
>
>1)  cvs update -d -P -r netbsd-1-6 /usr/src
>2)  cd /usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/conf
>3)  cp GENERIC TEST
>4)  config TEST
>5)  cd ../compile/TEST
>6)  make depend; make
>7)  mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
>8)  mv netbsd /netbsd
>9)  shutdown -r now
>
>The loader prints the following message on the screen:
>
>Rebooting with command: boot netbsd
>Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a  File and args: netbsd
>NetBSD IEEE 1275 Bootblock
>..>> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.5
> >> (devnull@lila.com, Sat Sep 27 01:53:56 PDT 2003)
>loadfile: reading header
>unknown executable format
>Program terminated

What version of ofwboot are you using?  1.6 is current.


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