On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:58:35 -0700, Snappy! <direct2system@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I've found that there are a few problems which will cause a panic,
> > which I should probably open a pr for. But when I soft reset back to
> > WinCE, then boot NetBSD again, it just does an fsck and I'm fine (this
> > is for my USB attached drives, I haven't bought a large enough CF card
> > yet).
> 
> somehow it either need fsck or something. And it hangs on fsck.
> 
> Otherwise, if its clean, I cannot  mount the msdos fat partn that is no the
> same CF card. Any idea?

One of those ways to cause a panic is to try to mount the msdos
partition on the CF card that has the boot kernel for me. Don't know
why. I might try to do some extra debugging to see what function it's
dying in, but I think most of the time I can't even use the debugger,
and it won't save the crash either which isn't too cool.

It just seems that some people have mysterious problems and others
don't, which is weird. I don't know how else to characterize it. Some
people have hangs and crashes on machiens that other people don't, and
they are using the same machine.

Hey, these are cheapie PDAs, what can we expect?

Have you tried unpacking the binary sets onto your disk from another
machine, setting it up manually and then trying to boot it? I sort of
go through this procedure on my Mobilepro 880 install page:

http://acruhl.freeshell.org/mobilepro880_netbsd.txt

Andy