port-sparc64: Re: u10 dont want to boot NetBSD 3 Install kernel

Subject: Re: u10 dont want to boot NetBSD 3 Install kernel
To: None <sammyshome@gmx.net>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 04/27/2006 17:20:21

sp4rc wrote:
>I have tried booting the NetBSD 3.0 Install kernel from the OpenBSD
>system and from CD but both times it stucks... The OpenBSD 3.8 Kernel
>boots from CD and HD without any problems, so there should be anything
>okay with my hardware. 

Have you tried booting any of the newer daily snapshots ?

[snip]

>Kernel size exceeds 4MB

This may be your problem, a fix went into the bootblocks after 3.0 to
change how the kernel was mapped.

Robert Swindells