Re: install on nec mobilepro 780

[Michael Grayson <allstarzero%gmail.com@localhost>]

Awesome, thanks.

I'm using it with RAM set to around 24Mb if that makes any difference. Mostly been testing with 9.1 but I also tried a few older versions for kicks. Let me know if you need any more info.

> On Apr 15, 2021, at 14:04, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 01:28:25PM -0400, Michael Grayson wrote:
> 
>> Thank you very much for the response. I did some web searching after
>> I read your message and I do see that gxemul (at last at one time) was
>> said to have a complete emulation of this device and that it was tested
>> with NetBSD. I do wonder how that would work since these devices come
>> with a ROM chip that loads WinCE which must then be used to boot NetBSD
>> using the hpcboot utility. I'm wondering if there are some variables
>> there that might be different between the gxemul and the actual device.
> 
> I see - and that is good enough: gxemul loads the kernel directly, so
> we totaly skip the WinCE part. Great, I'll create a test env and see what
> I can find out.
> 
>> As far as the install medium, I used a compact flash card with a DOS
>> partition for the bootstrap utility and install kernel. I tried various
>> options to get the sets once I was installing, FTP seemed to be the
>> most reliable.
> 
> OK, hpcmips install kernel - that makes it clear.
> 
>> Anyhow I'm happy to help in whatever way I can from my end. 
> 
> Let's see if I can reproduce it (but will take a bit).
> 
> Martin