Re: install on nec mobilepro 780

[Warner Losh <imp%bsdimp.com@localhost>]

I also have two NetBSD/hpcmips capable MobilePro 780 (and the japanese
version of the 770) I can donate to the efforts, though I have little to no
time to make it work myself.

Warner

On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 11:28 AM Michael Grayson <allstarzero%gmail.com@localhost>
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.
>
> 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.
>
> Anyhow I'm happy to help in whatever way I can from my end.
>
> > On Apr 15, 2021, at 07:20, 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
>