Thanks for all the replies, both on- and off-list.

For the archives, my conceptual problem was:

The root partition is the "a" partition, not necessarily the partition
where the kernel is booted from.  I'm not quite done, but I can see
the light at the end of the tunnel.

==ml

On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 02:48:35PM +0100, Alistair Crooks wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 02:16:17PM -0500, Michael W . Lucas wrote:
> > 
> > Hi folks,
> > 
> > I have a Jornada 728, 512MB flash card, and network cards for NetBSD,
> > but have a question on how to actually use this.  I'm certain I'm
> > missing something obvious here, but simply cannot wrap my feeble brain
> > around it.
> > 
> > According to the mailing list archives, one easy way to install NetBSD
> > is to just put the flash card in another system and fdisk, disklabel,
> > then build.sh install=/mnt .  If you do that, though, how do you
> > actually use hpcboot.exe to boot it?  Do you, say, unionfs mount the
> > ufs partition over a FAT partition containing the kernel so the root
> > partition comes out correct?
> > 
> > The way documented on
> > http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/hpcarm/howto-use.html documents using a
> > filesystem image, which is "coming soon."
> > 
> > Obviously I'm missing something.  Personally, I'd rather use the first
> > method, as I'm sure there is some clever way to boot the system.
> 
> As Uwe said, you should make a FAT filesystem with hpcboot.exe and the
> NetBSD kernel on it.
>  
> > As a side point: when I reset my Jornada into WinCE, the screen comes
> > back unusably bright.  Brightness resetting tools in WinCE don't seem
> > to help.  I've seen the same issue in the archives, but haven't seen a
> > solution.  Anyone know a solution?
> 
> When I reset the Jornada into WinCE, mine does the same. I have found
> two solutions to this:
> 
> 1. never resetting into WinCE, and
> 2. by removing battery and backup battery, and then replacing them
>    and booting up through WinCE again.
> 
> Regards,
> Alistair

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