hi,

i'd like to boot my U10 from a CF card (which resides on the first IDE 
channel on board) so that NetBSD can mount the HDs attached to a non-OF 
proof IDE controller.

i tried to boot from cd-rom (i followed the instructions in [1]), but 
here i end in the installation procedure -- i want it only to boot the 
kernel, nothing else. same applies to the CF card.

has anyone built such a config? how do i make the CF bootable?

i disklabelled it, newfs'ed it (ffsv1), copied a kernel to it and made 
it bootable (i think) via

/usr/sbin/installboot -v /dev/rwd1a /usr/mdec/bootblk
File system:         /dev/rwd1a
File system type:    ffs (blocksize 8192, needswap 0)
Primary bootstrap:   /usr/mdec/bootblk
Bootstrap start sector: 1
Bootstrap byte count:   4915
Writing bootstrap

but this doesn't work for me; when booting, the machine finds the 
NetBSD bootloader, but then it hangs (even before there's access to the 
kernel)...

[1] -- http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html

cheers,

timo