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Re: RB1100 (almost) boots with RB800 kernel



On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Jyrki Muukkonen wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Just noticed that RB800 support was added to NetBSD CVS tree, and
> decided to try it out on RB1100.
> 
> So, installed a fresh NetBSD 5.1, cross-compiled evbppc / RB800 from
> -current and it seems to load.
> 
> Got to root filesystem prompt, and in some seconds watchdog timeout
> panic'd. After
> ten secs or so, the system rebooted automatically. Didn't try to load
> NFS root yet.

That's expected since I didn't commit the cons.c change to poll the
console so the wdog doesn't get pet and boom.

Use the nfsnetbsd kernel and see what happens.

Thanks for feedback.  MikroTik was no help in getting the RB800 running.
I'd love to get the CF running on the RB800.  There is an alc driver
floating around should may work.


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