Hej again, > Am 03.12.2023 um 21:21 schrieb oskar%fessel.org@localhost: > > Hej, > > i just aquired a shiny new ARM VPS at netcup.de just to try to get netbsd running on that. > Seemed straightforward, but turns out, it is not. And it will be for the forseeable future. > The system can be set up to boot from cdrom, i used a -current iso from nycdn.netbsd.org. > Unfortunately, that seems to be ignored on boot, but currently support is not able to verify that. I built a new image from source and that did indeed boot to the bootloader. > second question is the consequence of my further tries. I used the install image to copy that over the virtual disk of that server. That booted into the bootloader just fine, but when the kernel loads, the VPS-console just displays „Guest disabled display“ - and the support asks me wether the kernel supports "virtio-gpu“. I did not find any reference in the arm secion of netbsd. netcup support tinkered around with the images i sent them and came to the same conclusion that Lloyd suggested in a private conversation: the vm expects kernel messages and in effect any interaction with the console using graphics calls to the gpu instead of just a plain text console. There is no plan on implementing that, currently. And i think, we don’t plan to implement console over GPU, right? i really have no expertise on how to setup a bootable image that will autoconfigure the network and allow ssh into a predefined install system. Has anyone done something like that? Cheers Oskar
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