Subject: Re: "illegal instruction" when booting newer GENERIC kernels
To: Noah Meyerhans <frodo@morgul.net>
From: Brett Lymn <blymn@baesystems.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/12/2006 07:45:43
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 05:14:08PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote:
>
> Hi all. I've got a SPARC 20 running NetBSD 1.6.2. I'm trying to
> upgrade it to something current, but am having trouble booting GENERIC
> kernels from either 2.1 or 3.0. Console output looks like:
>
Have you installed the later version of the bootblocks? The kernel
has grown in size past what the old boot blocks can handle so you need
the later bootblocks to handle the larger kernel.
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Brett Lymn