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Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.



On Sep 6, 11:15am, danno%serverunderground.com@localhost (Dan Oglesby) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.

| ----- Original Message -----
| > From: "Christos Zoulas" <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
| > To: "Dan Oglesby" <danno%serverunderground.com@localhost>, "David Brownlee" 
<abs%netbsd.org@localhost>
| > Cc: rjs%fdy2.demon.co.uk@localhost, macallan%netbsd.org@localhost, 
martin%duskware.de@localhost, tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost, 
port-sparc%netbsd.org@localhost
| > Sent: Monday, September 6, 2010 9:29:47 AM
| > Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
| > On Sep 3, 9:24pm, danno%serverunderground.com@localhost (Dan Oglesby) wrote:
| > -- Subject: Re: installing NetBSD on a Sparcstation 2.
| > 
| > | The floppy images from 201009010000Z error with:
| > |
| > | Cannot load netbsd: error=103
| > |
| > | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
| > |
| > | The floppy images from 201009030000Z error with:
| > |
| > | Cannot load netbsd: error=27
| > |
| > | This is while booting the disk1 floppy.
| > |
| > | Using the same floppies, and the same machine that wrote the
| > | previous floppies, I can make a set of NetBSD-1.6.2 floppies and
| > | boot the SS2 up to installation, so the hardware and media appear to
| > | work.
| > 
| > Progress!
| > 
| > 27 == EFBIG. The kernel has gotten too big or you don't have enough
| > memory
| > to load it. Perhaps we can make a small kernel for it.
| > 
| > christos
| 
| If it helps, the SS2 that I am using has 64MB of RAM.

Can you add some debugging to print the size in 
sys/arch/sparc/stand/boot/boot.c?

christos


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