Re: Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

[jmitchel%bigjar.com@localhost]

Okay, it turns out that the issue was hpcboot settings. In case someone
runs into this here's the problem an the solution.

When launching hpcboot on a Jornada 680 with the install kernel and the
file system set to md, the Jornada would complain "Unable to allocate
memory". If I increased the program memory as high as it would go, the
hpcboot progress bar would get to the far right then the Jornada would
reboot and show the following error:

bootling cold
exception event code 60
TLB Miss/Invalid (store)

The solution is to set the file system to wd (even though there isn't yet
a ffs file system on the flash card.

There is one more issue. The ramdisk doesn't appear to have sysinst. I
just get dropped at a shell prompt. There are utilities on the ramdisk
including "install" and "upgrade" in the root of the file system. But when
run each utility complains "Can't open //install.md" There's nothing in
the mailing list archives with that string. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jason M.

> Hello,
>
>     Apologies if this shows up twice. I'm having trouble getting the
> NetBSD 5.1.2 install kernel to boot on a Jornada 680. The hpcboot
> progress bar gets all the way to the end and then the screen goes
> black and the Jornada reboots. The list email pasted below suggests
> that a new copy of hpcboot.exe would solve my problems. Does anyone
> have a copy?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason M.
>
> I recall I had some trouble initially that was resolved by getting an
> updated hpcboot from someone off the list.
>
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>
>     On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 14:37:09 -0800, Devin D wrote:
>
>         /etc/rc.conf is not configured. multiuser boot aborted.
>         Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
>
>         I pressed the enter key and "hpckbd: unknown scan code 0x51 (10,
> 1)
>         then i realized no matter what key I hit i get that same error
> wiht
>         different values at the end.
>
>         Did I do something wrong?
>
>     Which "platform" (model) do you select in hpcboot menu?
>     E.g. "Jornada 690 (US/UK)" &c.
>
>     -uwe
>
>
>