At 9:51 Uhr +0100 3.11.2000, Tim Rayner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get an old powerbook duo 230 to boot using either a 1.5b
>generic SBC kernel or the custom kernel provided by Hauke Fath

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>While I can bring up a serial
>console with comparative ease, I remain unable to boot the duo
>using an internal console. Every time I try, the boot process drops into
>the debugger just after identifying the root filesystem as ffs, with
>the message "panic: cnopen: cn_tab->cn_dev == NODEV". The debugger gives
>the message "Stopped in init at   _cpu_Debugger+0x6:    unlk a6", for what
>that's worth. The keyboard works at this stage of the boot.

Do you see any video device listed among the boot messages, like "intvid0
at obio"? Any difference when booting with an older (say, 1.4.2) kernel?
Reason I am asking is because I get the same panic on a Q700 with 1.5 --
here, the internal video adapter is not found. The machine comes up fine
(and is my primary X server) with 1.4Q.

>I understand from reading the list archives that while duos are
>unsupported at this time, people have been able to boot certain duos all
>the way into X11; I was wondering if anyone had any pointers towards
>getting a 230 to a humble login prompt :-P?

If that helps you, a GENERIC 1.5 BETA kernel has enough of Daishi Kato's
changes to boot my Duo 280c to a working console. I even sometimes get into
X11 if xdm or teh X server don't get killed by FPE exceptions. So, yes,
there finally is Duo support in NetBSD.

You should probably send-pr your problem (there is a web interface on
www.netbsd.org, in case you do not have access to a working NetBSD box).

	hauke

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