Subject: Re: booting with floppy
To: None <heinz@netbsd.org>
From: Kazuki Sakamoto <sakamoto@splhack.org>
List: port-bebox
Date: 01/22/2001 14:03:24
heinz@netbsd.org wrote:
> my setup: BeBox 66Mhz/Matrox Millennium/2GB IBM DORS SCSI disk/NE2000 clone/
> 80MB RAM
> I know, that only the original NumberNine GXE64 card is supported for
> a graphics console, but the README file of the snapshot mentioned a
> serial console (Btw, the file 'inst_com.fs' which the README talks
> about is nowhere to be found), so I wanted to give it a try.
Sorry for confusion...
sys/arch/bebox/stand/boot(in -current) with CONS_BE supports Millennuim I/II.
But, binary snapshot (bootimage and kernel) is not available now.
Method to compile is described in sys/arch/bebox/stand/README.
> Neither of the two image files (inst_vga.fs and generic_vga.fs) produced
> output for me. I have a null modem connection from a Solaris/SPARC box
> to the serial ports and on serial4 (19200/8n1) I can see the debug
> output of BeOS just fine, but no combination of serial1-serial4, 19200/8n1
> and 9600/8n1, generic_vga.fs and inst_vga.fs did anything useful.
serial output is disabled in *_vga.fs.
sakamoto