Subject: port-hp300/17711: hp300 bootloader is case-insensitive when manually enterning kernel name
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <michael@nosflow.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/24/2002 14:39:48
>Number:         17711
>Category:       port-hp300
>Synopsis:       hp300 bootloader is case-insensitive when manually enterning kernel name
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-hp300-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jul 24 14:40:01 PDT 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     michael wolfson
>Release:        1.6_BETA4
>Organization:
>Environment:
>> NetBSD/hp300 Primary Boot, Revision 1.13
>Description:
The bootloader (SYS_UBOOT/uboot.lif) will look for a kernel name all-lowercase unless prefixed by device name.

>How-To-Repeat:
# ls -l net*
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1041097 Jul 20  2002 netbsd
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1041097 Dec 30 20:41 netbsd-GENERIC
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1041097 Dec 30 20:41 netbsd-gen
# reboot
[...]
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
 >> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Sat Jul 20 23:07:17 UTC 2002)
 
 >> NetBSD/hp300 Primary Boot, Revision 1.13
 >> (autobuild@tgm.daemon.org, Sat Jul 20 23:07:17 UTC 2002)
 >> HP 9000/360 SPU
 >> Enter "reset" to reset system.
 Boot: [[[sd0a:]netbsd][-a][-c][-d][-s][-v][-q]] :- netbsd-GENERIC
 open netbsd-generic: No such file or directory
 boot: No such file or directory
 Boot: [[[sd0a:]netbsd.gz][-a][-c][-d][-s][-v][-q]] :- netbsd-gen
 736080+24980+163396 [202192+64193]=0x124d80
 [...]
 # reboot
 [...]
 Boot: [[[sd0a:]netbsd][-a][-c][-d][-s][-v][-q]] :- sd0a:netbsd-GENERIC
 736080+24980+163396 [202192+64193]=0x124d80