Re: Raspberry Pi

[Nick Hudson <skrll%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Monday 30 July 2012 21:43:52 Dave Tyson wrote:
> On Sunday 29 July 2012 09:05:18 Nick Hudson wrote:
> > On Saturday 28 July 2012 22:49:29 Dave Tyson wrote:
> > > OK, having built a kernel, done a make release and stuffed the result
> > > on a (rather small) 512M SD card with the appropriate RPI boot files I
> > > managed to get NetBSD booted. Amazing and a huge thank you to the
> > > developers!!
> > > 
> > > However it fails to mount root complaining about a filecore boot I/O
> > > error. A quick google provides a lot of questions, but few answers. Am
> > > I missing a step to write some magic in the early sectors?
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > 6 partitions:
> > > #        size    offset     fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
> > > 
> > >  a:    876000    131141     4.2BSD     0    0     0
> > >  b:       499   1008141       swap
> > >  c:    876499    131141     unused     0    0
> > >  d:   1008640         0     unused     0    0
> > >  e:    131072        63      MSDOS
> > 
> > evbarm expects 'c' as the whole disk - this is probably your problem. The
> > other thing to check is that your 'a' partition is setup correctly.
> > 
> > Nick
> 
> Thanks for the info. I had a play around and checked the NetBSD partition
> and it looked fine. I noticed some comments about the RPI being picky
> about the SDHC cards and so built it on a different 4gb card.

Maybe there are new bugs in sys/dev/sdmmc so I'd be interested in information 
on this. SDHC_DEBUG/SDMMC_DEBUG output would be helpful.

> This got me a lot further in that it started to go multiuser and init
> crapped out.

I fixed this today. cvs update.

> 
> Dave

Nick