Re: NetBSD4 INSTALL kernel fails to boot on A7000

[Chris Gilbert <chris%dokein.co.uk@localhost>]

Peter Howkins wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Chris Gilbert <chris%dokein.co.uk@localhost> 
> wrote:
> > Peter Howkins wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >  I'm attempting to boot the INSTALL kernel from
> > >
> > > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-4.0/acorn32/installation/kernel/
> > >
> > > and get the following
>
> <snip kernel error>
>
> > I wonder (as the kernel is 3.8MB) if when booted it passes a 4MB limit.
> >
> > Could you try the latest bootloader?  I did some work on it recently,
> > and it might have fixed this issue.  Note that a 4.x kernel should work
> > with it.
> >
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/200810060002Z/acorn32/installation/misc/
>
> I tried this btNetBSD with the above install kernel, and it failed in
> the same way.
>
> However I tried the InstKern inside the !btNetBSD archive and it worked [1]
> My previous attempts with the InstKern from the 3.1 and 4.0 !btNetBSD
> both failed.
> They'd load, then instead of dropping to a NetBSD screen, would reboot the box.

That's what I expected (I probably wasn't clear enough that you only 
needed to grab the bootloader, not the kernel.)

> [1] Well booted, I started stepping through the install steps and got a error
> on the disc formatting stage (newfs), but I might be able to work past that,
> but regardless I'll get another photo of it for you.

Yeah more details would be useful.

> Peter
>
> ps. I like that the new install kernel in the daily dir runs at
> 640x480 @ 60 Hz. the previous
> install and running kernels ran at 85Hz making finding a suitable
> monitor much more difficult, and ruled out most LCD panels.

I think we actually keep the display as it was in RISC-OS, IE we don't 
change what was working prior to RISC-OS.  At some point we might be 
more intelligent, eg try and read DDC info and make a mode from that but 
for now we rely on what was set in RISC-OS

Thanks,
Chris