Re: Graphics initialization issue(?)

[Havard Eidnes <he%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> On 21/07/2017 14:02, Havard Eidnes wrote:
>> one of my colleagues is installing NetBSD in a "dual-boot" setup
>> with MacOSX, and we finally managed to boot it using ofwboot.elf;
>> ofwboot.xcf failed there as well when booting from the harddrive
>> with different symptoms: either it hangs after ofwboot.xcf is
>> loaded or loops spewing some error message.
>
> Just to clarify, did you use a compressed kernel (netbsd.gz) or
> uncompressed kernel (stock netbsd).

On my own systems I use whatever comes "by default", i.e. what I
get from extracting kern-GENERIC.tgz.  I beleive that means an
uncompressed kernel.  And I'm pretty sure my colleague did the
same.

> When I was testing with uwe the other week, we discovered the
> issue is with using an uncompressed kernel. There's no issue
> with using ofwboot.xcf and a gzipped kernel.

Hm...  Should we then change how we package stuff, so that
extracting kern-GENERIC.tgz leaves a netbsd.gz?  We'd then have
to modify the release notes accordingly...  Or ... be cheesy and
make the file extract to "netbsd" but it still being a gzipp'ed
file?

Regards,

- Håvard