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Re: Upgrading 3.0.1 to 4.0 on IP22



Quoting Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>:

On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Stephen Borrill wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Michael Lorenz wrote:
Should the 3.0.1 bootloader happily boot 4.0?

Probably not - should be easy to try, noting keeps you from having more than one loader in the volume header.

Copied the one from NetBSD 4 as boot4, but boot4 /netbsd4 was just the same.

I'll try -current now.

To followup myself, -current works better (current bootloader won't
load netbsd-4 kernel, BTW). The INSTALL kernel boots, but after
creating the mfs /dev it reports tset: command not found and I could
proceed no further. Key presses were being accepted but nothing
happened. With a -current GENERIC kernel and my 3.0.1 userland it gets
as far as swapctl before hanging.

Do you have a hinv output for this? I've not used -current in a long time (no SGIs here), so I've no idea how well the mips stuff is working, but I've not seen problems like this before...

Console is still wrong though (as it was on 3.0.1). There's no cursor
and backspace doesn't wipeout the previous character (on the terminal,
it does as far as input is concerned), so it can be tricky to use.

This is an Indy? That is, it's using newport(4), and not the ARCS console?

Steve



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