On Saturday, December 11, 2004, at 07:05 AM, Kevin Polston wrote:

> Hi all
> I'm a newcomer to both netBSD and the Cobalt Raq2.  I've loaded netBSD 
> 1.6.1 using the recovery disk method.
> Everything apeared to go well but then I re-booted the consol showed 
> 'decompressing' twice and then halted.
> I googled and found that entering 'bfd /boot/netbsd.gz' at the cobalt 
> prompt does indeed boot the machine.
> However, I would like to boot my Raq2 without having to type 'bfd 
> /boot/netbsd.gz' at the console.  Could anybody
> give me a hand?
> Many thanks
> Kevin
> PS my Raq only has 16Mb of RAM - could this be an issue?

If you look back in the newsgroup archive of the list, there's a post 
(somewhere between Jan and here) re: 16 megs, the 1.6.1, and the kernel 
failing to boot the Qube 2.

It seems there's a bug somewhere and on 16 meg machines the boot loader 
overwrites part of something important when it's being decompressed/ 
loaded into RAM.

IIRC there was a patch posted in the list.

And actually I found the link to the posting pretty quickly, so here it 
is:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2004/01/06/0000.html

This might help you with your problem.  Although it may have been 
specific to the netboot CD for the Qube, not for whatever you used for 
the RAQ, I don't know much about the differences between the machines 
or how your install disk was built.  It's a starting point, though, and 
it certainly sounds like the same issue.

Brian


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