5.1 installation on Alix 2D13

[Ron McDowell <rcm%fuzzwad.org@localhost>]

Hi netbsd-users,

I have an Alix 2D13 board here [with a 2gb Sandisk CF card] I'm trying 
to bring up for use as a router/firewall/access point, and am having 
trouble getting it to boot.

I used this as a rough guide...
http://sun.hasenbraten.de/~frank/docs/netbsd_cf_router.html

...and  here are the commands that I culled from my history file...

dd if=/dev/zero of=cf.img bs=512 count=3906560
vnconfig vnd0 cf.img
fdisk -ua0 vnd0
disklabel -e -I vnd0
newfs -B le -m 0 -o space vnd0a
mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt
cd /mnt
tar xzfp ~/i386/binary/sets/kern-GENERIC.tgz
tar xzfp ~/i386/binary/sets/base.tgz
tar xzfp ~/i386/binary/sets/etc.tgz
cp /usr/mdec/boot .
installboot -e -o console=com0,speed=38400 usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
installboot -f -v -o console=com0,speed=38400 /dev/rvnd0a 
usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1
vi etc/fstab
cd /mnt/var
tar czf /mnt/etc/var.tgz .
rm -rf *
cd /mnt/etc
vi rc.d/mountcritlocal
vi sysctl.conf
cd
umount /mnt
vnconfig -u vnd0
dd if=cf.img of=/dev/sd0d bs=4k progress=25

The system this was all done on is a Dell D430 with a fresh 5.1 i386 
release on it, same version as I'm trying to install on the Alix.  It 
all seemed to go well except the second installboot complained about -f 
being needed so I added it.

When I boot the Alix, I get:

PC Engines ALIX.2 v0.99h
640 KB Base Memory
261120 KB Extended Memory

01F0 Master 848A SanDisk SDCFH-002G                     
Phys C/H/S 3875/16/63 Log C/H/S 968/64/63



>> NetBSD/x86 BIOS Boot, Revision 5.2 (from NetBSD 5.1)
>> Memory: 640/261120 k
Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
booting hd0a:netbsd - starting in 0 seconds.    
open netbsd: No such file or directory
boot: hd0a:netbsd: No such file or directory
booting hd0a:netbsd.gz
open netbsd.gz: No such file or directory
boot: hd0a:netbsd.gz: No such file or directory
booting hd0a:onetbsd - starting in 0 seconds.    
open onetbsd: No such file or directory
boot: hd0a:onetbsd: No such file or directory
booting hd0a:onetbsd.gz
open onetbsd.gz: No such file or directory
boot: hd0a:onetbsd.gz: No such file or directory
booting hd0a:netbsd.old - starting in 0 seconds.    
open netbsd.old: No such file or directory
boot: hd0a:netbsd.old: No such file or directory
booting hd0a:netbsd.old.gz
open netbsd.old.gz: No such file or directory
boot: hd0a:netbsd.old.gz: No such file or directory
>


Any clues are welcome!!

--
Ron McDowell
San Antonio TX