On 17-Apr-2006 Cory Bajus wrote:
> - the 'dd' to write the boot image appeared to fail as follows:
> However, the system booted without any problems following installation.

Yeah..  it allways does this when you dd the image.  I think its because the
image isn't evenly divisble by 512.  conv=sync might fix it but I haven't
gotten around to testing it.

> - selecting 'reboot' from sysinst does not seem to work - I had to hit
> the power switch to restart the system.  This also seems to be the case
> for a 'shutdown -r' command as it hangs after the 'rebooting...' message.

Ok.. thats likely because the 7025 is similar to the 7024.  Namely it has a
different reboot controller than the other models.  Right now I don't know how
to talk to the controller on these machines yet.  It's on my list, but I'm
unsure of how to do it.  Right now you can't reboot a 7024 or 7025 via software.

> - The system asks for the location of the root device and shows '<unknown>'
> as the boot device.  Also, it asks for the location of 'init' (this might
> be normal behavior for this build).

Ok.. thats annoying.  You can help me fix this by compiling a kernel with
NVRAM_DUMP set, and emailing me the output.  It's a rather ugly dump, so you
probably don't want to send it to the list.

> Great work on sysinst and the other pieces needed to make installation go
> so smooth.  The F30 is completely supported.  I will try an F40 next if I
> can get it to netboot properly (not a NetBSD problem - it has trouble
> netbooting AIX as well).

Hrmm..  I'm currently working on testing the CD installation support. 
Hopefully I can get it to boot from a CDROM, which might alleviate your
problem.  (It actually might allready work, but I have yet to test it, so I
have no idea)

I'm thrilled to hear that the F30 works so well though.  Thats great.  Get me
the NVRAM_DUMP output and I'll get auto-booting working for you.  It works on
most of the other machines allready.

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