Dave Daniels | 8 Sep 2007 11:04
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NetBSD 4 on Cats

I have just tried installing NetBSD 4 RC 1 on my Cats
from CD using the 4.0 Cats ISO image. I did not get very
far. My Cats is running Cyclone 1.3 as the boot loader.
The installation kernel in the root directory is in
ELF format but Cyclone does not support ELF, only AOUT.
However, the install kernel netbsd.aout-INSTALL in the
cats/binary/kernel directory also appears to be ELF
format rather than AOUT so that one is not usable either.
Is this an oversight?

Dave Daniels

Chris Gilbert | 8 Sep 2007 15:47
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Re: NetBSD 4 on Cats

Dave Daniels wrote:
> I have just tried installing NetBSD 4 RC 1 on my Cats
> from CD using the 4.0 Cats ISO image. I did not get very
> far. My Cats is running Cyclone 1.3 as the boot loader.
> The installation kernel in the root directory is in
> ELF format but Cyclone does not support ELF, only AOUT.
> However, the install kernel netbsd.aout-INSTALL in the
> cats/binary/kernel directory also appears to be ELF
> format rather than AOUT so that one is not usable either.
> Is this an oversight?

Looks like a bug with the makefiles.  They should be aout.  The problem
is that a target is empty, but this doesn't seem to actually cause make
to error, it just keeps going.

I've a fix for it, but I need to get it reviewed etc before checking in
and a pull up requested.

I'll raise a PR to track this.

Thanks,
Chris


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