On 30/12/2018 15:59, J. Lewis Muir wrote:
I'm trying to install NetBSD 8 on a PC Engines apu2d4
https://www.pcengines.ch/apu2d4.htm
via a USB thumb drive with a NetBSD 8 install image
https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/images/NetBSD-8.0-amd64-install.img.gz
Yes but you need to reconfigure the bootloader (which can be done on an
existing NetBSD system) to set things up so the kernel uses the serial console.
The other alternative (assuming you are able to do keyboard input) is to set
the console to com0 using the interactive bootloader.
For installboot assuming the usb install image is detected as sd0 on another
netbsd system you can do:
installboot -e -o console=com0 /dev/rsd0a
You should also be able to do the same thing when installing as well. One thing
I found with this is that this stopped the keyboard working in the bootloader
but I didn't figure out why.
One other thing is I'd recommend a recent (last 2weeks or newer) 8.0 snapshot
as this contains the change that makes NetBSD recognise the APU SATA controller
properly although I've found it works pretty well with an high speed SD card as
the disk.
ACPI and SMP both work perfectly.