On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 06:52:00PM -0400, mcesare@nc.rr.com wrote:
> I just  did a fresh install of 2.0.2 on a sparc20 (2x Ross 125Mhz)

OK, should be supported. Is your hardware known good?

> I tried to build the SMP kernel by
> config GENERIC.MP
> etc. 
> per Chapter 28.
> 
> It fails almost immedialty on load with an exception.

Can you give us some more info on the exception? The easiest way would be
to hookup a serial console to your machine so that you can copy and paste
the messages.

> I did what intsall script calls "full installation"
> then went to ftp.netbsd.org to get ..../syssrc.tgz only
> Do I need any thing else for kernel build ?

No, that's the only source code you need.

> How do I get the details of these crashes I've seen on this list?

Have you tried using the releng-built GENERIC.MP kernel? - you can find it
in sparc/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.MP.gz at your local NetBSD mirror.
Just install and boot as you did with the custom kernel.

I've got a number of MP sparc machines and they all work fine with 2.0.2 (I
even netboot the GENERIC.MP kernel when installing them :)

-mj
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