Re: bootloader issue

["David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>]

Ok, this works, I can boot!  The ATARI TT030 lives!!!

A big Thank You to everyone involved in getting us here!

Izumi, I can test the netbsd-4, netbsd-5, and HEAD builds when they are 
available on ftp.netbsd.org.  Let me know if you can predict when a 
particular daily build might appear and I'll look for it then.  Don't forget 
boot.atari needs to get into base.tgz (not just sysinst).

So that seems to be the last of the critical blockers for the TT030, unless 
there are any stability bugs lurking.  I'll file PRs for any that I find.

Anyone know if there is a schedule somewhere online listing planned major 
release dates?  I probably should check out a test build on the TT030 
sometime before each release to make sure my platform keeps working.  =)

But since I'm now having fun filing these PRs...  =)  I just filed a low 
priority PR on the floppy drive light remaining on after boot.  This is a 
very minor issue that's been around for some time, it is _not_ a regression 
due to any recent changes.
The PR: http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=40330
Some clues: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-atari/1995/12/11/0000.html
Oddly, that message predates 1.6.1, which had the bug.

David Ross
dross%pobox.com@localhost


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Ross" <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
To: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Cc: <port-atari%NetBSD.org@localhost>; <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>; <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>; 
<tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: bootloader issue


> Oh yeah, that's an issue for sure, I should have realized.  I will try 
> this and report back tonight (~12hrs).
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Izumi Tsutsui" <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
> To: <dross%pobox.com@localhost>
> Cc: <port-atari%NetBSD.org@localhost>; <tjamaloo%gmail.com@localhost>; <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>; 
> <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>
> Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 2:58 AM
> Subject: Re: bootloader issue
>
>
> > David Ross wrote:
> >
> > > On boot, I get:
> > > NetBSD/atari secondary bootloader ($Revision: 1.12 $)
> > >
> > > |
> > >
> > > That pipe is the little spinning bar.  It spins a little but freezes 
> > > pretty
> > > quickly at the pipe.  The drive light stays off after the freeze.
> >
> > Ah, installboot(8) doesn't replace /boot.atari on the target disk
> > so I guess your SCSI disk still has stock tertiary /boot.atari
> > extracted from base.tgz in daily snapshot, which doesn't have fixes yet.
> >
> > For workaround you have to replace it with a patched one in my
> > custom sysinst.fs manually. You can do it on sysinst prompt as:
> >
> > # mount /dev/sd0a /targetroot
> > # cp /usr/mdec/boot.atari /targetroot
> > # umount /targetroot
> > # reboot
> >
> > or so.
> >
> > ---
> > Izumi Tsutsui