On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Todd Whitesel wrote:

> Whee!  My CATS board arrived on friday.
> 
> I swapped it into a working system that had previously been using a P5MMX
> motherboard. It does take a while to chug through the video firmware, but
> it seems to have found everything (32MB RAM, 2 IDE HD's, CD-ROM, ATAPI ZIP).

Thanks good ;-)

> However it appears to present me with a catch-22 for installing it without
> a network connection to another machine. The CD doesn't appear to be bootable
> by the firmware; if I hack the CD's install script and use a NetBSD/i386
> machine to prepare a ZIP disk, the firmware does not want to boot that guy
> either. I also don't see anything that looks like an install floppy image.

I have a beta version of the firmware with support for ATAPI boot devices,
ISO filesystesm and ext2 filesystems. This is should be available from the
Chalice WWW site as soon as I am happy with it.

> The ethernet card I have in this chassis is a $10 PnP-ISA NE2000 clone, but
> the firmware doesn't probe that, only the true PCI devices. BTW the 'pci
> scan' output for my system scrolls off the top of the screen and so is hard
> to completely read.

Current PCI based NE2000 clones are supported for boot devices but not ISA
ones.

> Next thing I am going to try is swapping the Pentium motherboard back in
> and using it to install wd0 from the CATS CD. Presumably the CATS firmware
> will at least attempt to boot a netbsd kernel from that.

The firmware will boot from FFS based ATA devices ok.

Cheers,
				Mark