Subject: port-hp300/17711: hp300 bootloader is case-insensitive when manually enterning kernel name
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <michael@nosflow.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/24/2002 14:39:48
>Number: 17711
>Category: port-hp300
>Synopsis: hp300 bootloader is case-insensitive when manually enterning kernel name
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: port-hp300-maintainer
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jul 24 14:40:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: michael wolfson
>Release: 1.6_BETA4
>Organization:
>Environment:
>> NetBSD/hp300 Primary Boot, Revision 1.13
>Description:
The bootloader (SYS_UBOOT/uboot.lif) will look for a kernel name all-lowercase unless prefixed by device name.
>How-To-Repeat:
# ls -l net*
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1041097 Jul 20 2002 netbsd
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1041097 Dec 30 20:41 netbsd-GENERIC
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1041097 Dec 30 20:41 netbsd-gen
# reboot
[...]
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
>> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Sat Jul 20 23:07:17 UTC 2002)
>> NetBSD/hp300 Primary Boot, Revision 1.13
>> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Sat Jul 20 23:07:17 UTC 2002)
>> HP 9000/360 SPU
>> Enter "reset" to reset system.
Boot: [[[sd0a:]netbsd][-a][-c][-d][-s][-v][-q]] :- netbsd-GENERIC
open netbsd-generic: No such file or directory
boot: No such file or directory
Boot: [[[sd0a:]netbsd.gz][-a][-c][-d][-s][-v][-q]] :- netbsd-gen
736080+24980+163396 [202192+64193]=0x124d80
[...]
# reboot
[...]
Boot: [[[sd0a:]netbsd][-a][-c][-d][-s][-v][-q]] :- sd0a:netbsd-GENERIC
736080+24980+163396 [202192+64193]=0x124d80