Re: install on nec mobilepro 780

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

If it's clock related it could also explain why "progress" crashes in the install.

> On Apr 16, 2021, at 12:46, Michael Grayson <allstarzero%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> 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