Subject: Re: Could you tell me the exact installation of netbsd/sparc64 ?
To: Eiji Ota <eiji@fs.fujitsu.com>
From: Eduardo Horvath <eeh@turbolinux.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/12/2000 12:21:49
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Eiji Ota wrote:

> Then I could mount two partitions.
> # mount 
> root_device on / type ffs (local, read-only)
> /dev/sd0a on /mnt type ffs (local, read-only)
> ~~~~~~~~~ The partition having tar files.
> /dev/sd0d on /mnt2 type ffs (local)
> ~~~~~~~~~ The partition I want to use as root.
> 
> But I couldn't change the directory to /mnt2 to install sparc64
> binaries(they are under /mnt).
> 
> # sh
> # cd /mnt2
> Bad system call - core dumped
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> # 

The userland is probably newer than the kernel, so it doesn't know the new
system call.

> > I will try to get a more up to date 32-bit kernel and bootloader up on the
> > FTP site soon.
> 
> Should I wait for the latest binaries ?

Yes.  I'll upload a recent kernel tonight.

Eduardo Horvath