Re: Installing NetBSD to Banana Pi SATA HD

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

On 02/10/16 10:10, Dan MacDonald wrote:
> 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.

I have these to run my BPI from a SATA HD

bpi# cat /boot/uEnv.txt
bootargs=root=wd0a
aload_script=fatload mmc 0 0x43000000 bananapi/script.bin;
aload_kernel=fatload mmc 0 0x48000000 netbsd.ub; bootm 0x48000000;
uenvcmd=run aload_script aload_kernel

bpi# cat /etc/fstab
# See /usr/share/examples/fstab/ for more examples.
/dev/wd0a       /               ffs     rw      1 1
/dev/wd0b       none            swap    sw      0 0
/dev/ld0e       /boot           msdos   rw      1 1
kernfs          /kern           kernfs  rw
ptyfs           /dev/pts        ptyfs   rw
procfs          /proc           procfs  rw
tmpfs           /tmp            tmpfs   rw,-m=1777
tmpfs           /var/shm        tmpfs   rw,-m1777,-sram%25
bpi#


> 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.

No-one has added the code, I guess.

> Can we expect power off for the BPi to be implemented too, maybe for 7.1?

Does the BPI support this?

Nick