On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, UnterGeek wrote:

>
>   After turning off "console" in wscons.conf and turning on TTYE0 as screen
> 0 (and fiddling with /etc/ttys), I was able to use the Pencentra screen, run
> TWM under X, and it even detected my USB keyboard. Very exciting! Touching
> the screen causes the mouse pointer to move, but it doesn't really track...
>
>    But I am still needing my mainframe to get over the hurdle of having to
> tell the booter where my root drive/dump drives are. It boots as far as
>
> atabus0 at wdc1 channel 0
> wd0 at atabus0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFH-2048>
> wd0: drive supports 4-sector PIO transfers, LBA addressing
> wd0: 1953 MB, 3970 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4001760 sectors
> wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4
> boot device: wd0
> root device (default md0a): I type in <wd0a>
> dump device (default wd0b): wd0a  Typed in...
> file system (default generic):    Typed in...
>
> ... and this has to be done over console boot because the Pencentra screen
> and keyboard aren't up yet.
>
> Any suggestions? I'm so close!

 	Are you building a custom kernel? If so you should be able to
 	add "config netbsd root on wd0a type ?" to the config file to
 	get it to automatically use wd0a as the root filesystem.
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