Re: install on nec mobilepro 780

[Aaron Peters <acpkendo%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hi everyone, I've been lurking here for some time with the intent of asking
about this very issue. I'm on a MobilePro 790, essentially the same as the
780 except for a bit of persistent RAM (useful for storing the bootloader).

I'm happy to help troubleshoot/test, I'm in the same situation as Michael.
sysinst worked well until the step where sets are extracted, where that
process always errors out. I took the same path of dropping into a shell
and extracting them manually, I'm stuck trying to get the new filesystem to
boot. I suspect this is as simple as not having made the right
slice/partition active, but since my last attempt was using 9.0 I'm happy
to re-do the whole thing for the newer version.

Aaron


On Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 7:20 AM Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2021 at 04:18:24PM -0400, Michael Grayson wrote:
> > Update on this. After quite a bit of tinkering I was able to
> > bootstrap the system by using sysinst to build the filesystem and then
> > manually installing the sets from the shell. I believe sysinst is
> > broken for this architecture; specifically, it is dumping core from the
> > progress utility. Not sure who to talk to about that.
>
> I can help with sysinst specific issues, but I don't have that hardware
> and no idea how to easily test. What install medium is used, and
> can we run it in gxemul?
>
> If basic tools like progress do not work, then something more serious
> is going on and we need to fix that first.
>
> Martin
>