Subject: Re: Need copy of JSINSTALL.gz
To: None <port-hpcarm@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Postma <peter@pointless.nl>
List: port-hpcarm
Date: 05/22/2006 23:44:08
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 05:04:42PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>
> >Its analogue in the HPCMIPS tree
> >(ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-3.0/hpcmips/installation/)
> >contains not only the HPC bootloader (hpcboot.exe) but also a generic,
> >compiled kernel (netbsd.gz) that boots on an hpcmips box directly into
> >'sysinst' and therefore makes installation oh-so-possible. Not to
> >mention the lengthy, and really useful, install docs contained in its
> >root...
>
> The 'installation' directory in post-3.0 snapshots does contain
> hpcboot.exe as well as an installation kernel for the iPAQ 3600,
> I was waiting for some feedback on whether it worked before doing
> a Jornada kernel.
>
I've tried an INSTALL_JORNADA (= JORNADA720 + MD options) kernel a few
months ago and unfortunately, it does not boot successfully. It freezes
somewhere early in the boot process.
--
Peter Postma