Re: soekris net5501 and netbsd-5 /boot

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 03, 2011 at 10:14:05AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> It seems like a bug that installing a new bootstrap doesn't preserve
> options.  Do others feel that way?

Not as a default action.
Otherwise it is difficult to get a system 'clean'.
 
> > The system might even be coming up far enough to let you login remotely!
> 
> For reasons I don't understand, while after setting "console com0" to
> /boot, the system came up and was on the net, without that it never did.

Possibly the kernel starts talking directly to the io/mem ports of the
assumed vga output screen.  I suspect that doesn't work well.
The code might even try to trap into the bios - which will work
even less well.

        David

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