This complicates things greatly.  Anyone time to rebuild a new snapshot 
(or fix that tarball)?

I manually unpacked/used the kernel in:

$snapshotdir/install/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz

...except that kernel freezes when it tries to access rootdev (wd0a in 
my case).  Is there any way to pass the kernel a flag from openboot to 
specify a rootdev (checking google now).  I don't want to try an older 
kernel from an older snapshot (bootblock mismatches, etc.)

I'll try to get bootparams to specify a rootdev.

-gf

Tim Goodwin wrote:

> Tomi Nylund <wizard@finland.invalid> writes:
> 
> 
>>I tried installing the 1.5ZC today, and ran into a strange problem:
>>pax wouldn't unpack the kern-GENERIC.tgz from binary/sets, no matter
>>what.
>>
> 
> I can't shed much light on this, except to say that I experienced
> exactly the same problem (and worked around it in the same way) with a
> release that I built for local consumption on 2002-05-09.
> 
> In other words, I think this is (or was) a generic problem in the
> build process, and not, say, a one-off corrupted file.
> 
> Tim.
> 
> 
>