Subject: Re: NetBSD/ofppc on Pegasos asking for boot partition
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Jorge Acereda <jacereda@gmail.com>
List: port-ofppc
Date: 12/15/2004 17:13:43
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 16:26:22 +0100, Jochen Kunz
<jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:24:16PM +0100, Jorge Acereda wrote:
>
> > I have NetBSD/ofppc on the Pegasos board at the point where it asks
> > for a boot partition. It even mounted my ext Gentoo partition :-)
> Are you using the generic OFW drivers or do you have a real PCI
> attachment?
Generic OFW drivers. Haven't worked on PCI yet.
> Is the Pegasos somthing special or is it PReP or CHRP or?
It is supossed to be CHRP-compliant.
> Does the Pegasos have an OpenPIC?
Nope.
> > I'll try a NFS mount tonight and will post the results.
> I am already at single user with NFS root useing the generic OFW
> drivers. This worked out of the box.
Not in my case. The SmartFirmware has problems with unclaimed memory
(OF_avail reported _all_ the memory). I also had to adjust
openfirmware() to what it was in 1.6.2.
Greetings,
Jorge Acereda