Re: install on nec mobilepro 780

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

Did some more tinkering last night and reinstalled on a larger CF card. The system
is fairly unstable, with a lot of core dumps happening in seemingly mundane
operations (such as boggle LOL). It seems that the cores might be rtc related. I'm
still investigating.

> On Apr 15, 2021, at 22:25, Michael <allstarzero%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> Hi Aaron!
> 
> I'm happy that I'm not the only one trying to get this going!
> 
> At this point I have a working install on my 780, though I'm still struggling with some configuration issues.
> 
> Where in the boot process are you getting hung up?
> 
> Once you got your partitions/labels set up and your sets extracted, did you remember to switch the kernel in your hpc boot utility from the install kernel (netbsd.gz) to the boot kernel (netbsd-GENERIC.gz)? That was one of the steps I didn't catch on to the first time through the install docs as it's not explicitly mentioned.
> 
>> On Thu, Apr 15, 2021 at 6:56 PM Aaron Peters <acpkendo%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>> 
>> 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