Subject: Re: booting from disk
To: Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de>
From: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
List: port-hp700
Date: 05/08/2005 11:13:34
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:23:13PM +0200, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> On Sun, 8 May 2005 06:39:18 -0700
> Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com> wrote:
> 
> > it seems likely that something in the xxboot code is causing this,
> > because that's the only thing that's different from the netboot case. 
> > I looked at the xxboot sources but I don't see anything that looks
> > relevant.  does anyone have any ideas?
> Did you try to netboot a kernel with "-a" and then continue to boot from
> disk? I think I tried this some time ago and still got the same problems
> like when booted from disk. But I may be wrong.

that works fine on the B180.


> > if no one has any suggestions then I'll just check in the above hack
> > for now.
> I had a look at http://www.openpa.net/cpu.html
> The only CPU without integrated FPU is the PA7000. This CPU is not
> supported at the moment anyway. So it is save to asume the presence
> of a FPU on any machine NetBSD supports at the moment.

yea, but I'd rather fix the PDC_COPROC problem if anyone can see how.

-Chuck