I have successfully got NetBSD 7 installed and running on my Banana Pi on an SD card but now I'd like install it to my SATA HD. Does a guide exist that explains how to do this?
Last night I used sysinst to partition and format my HD. I also had some success in getting it to install the OS (after using the custom mode to de-select the missing kernel package and fixing the HTTP URL) too but it failed some unnamed sanity check at the last minute. I think I may have more luck using my laptop to simply copy the root partition off the SD and onto the HD.
I am presuming that if I take this route, I should be able to get away with simply modifying fstab to point to the correct root partition (wd0a) and changing boot.scr to boot off wd0a too or might anything else be required? When I tried this last night after using sysinst to install a minimal base system, boot paused for some time when it came to looking for the root device and then I got a USB-related kernel panic.
Also, when sysinst was downloading the tarballs I noticed the TX LED didn't blink. In fact I haven't seen it blink at all whilst I've been running NetBSD on my BPi. Is this a known bug? It works fine under Linux.
Can we expect power off for the BPi to be implemented too, maybe for 7.1?
Thanks for your help!