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Jochen Kunz wrote:
>
> You need to include /usr/mdec/boot as the first file in the LIF image
> and the kernel as the second file. I.e.:
> /usr/mdec/mkboot /usr/mdec/boot \
> <<path to netbsd-generic e.g. from kern.tgz>> \
> netboot.lif
> 
Thanks for the hint, with the "boot" part it works. Great!
> 
...
> 
>>- the other downside is that on this slower/older 60MHz version
>>of the HP712 that I happen to have the keyboard just does not work.
> 
> Does sti(4) attach? Detecting the framebuffer on the 712 is a nightmare.
> It broke some time ago. I started to investigate it but had to care
> about other things. So it is still broken, unfortunately. It is still on
> my todo list but it will take at least two weeks before I can dedicate
> some time to this problem again.
> 
As i read it the graphic does not attach, but the keyboard itself does.
See the attached dmesg.

> For now there are only two ways to solve this: Build your own kernel and
> either disable everything wscons(4) related in the config file or hack
> the sti(4) driver to attach unconditionaly. The kernel will use the PROM
> console if wscons(4) is disabled.

Honestly I am not getting how the missing graphics makes the keyboard
useless. If there is a short and simple answer, otherwise I'll just
accept it.

Anyhow I'll make this box busy building some packages to see wether it
stalls somewhere with the symptoms of report: port-hp700/31540



Regards,

Rudi


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Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
    2006, 2007
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 4.99.17 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Apr 20 23:01:19 PDT 2007
	builds@wb33:/home/builds/ab/HEAD/hp700/200704210002Z-obj/home/builds/ab/HEAD/src/sys/arch/hp700/compile/GENERIC
HP9000/712/60 (Gecko)
real mem = 32768 KB (73728 reserved for PROM, 20372 KB used by NetBSD)
avail mem = 19972 KB
timecounter: Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
mainbus0 (root) [flex fff80000]
pdc0 at mainbus0
cpu0 at mainbus0 hpa 0xfffbe000 path 8 irq 31 ipl 0: PA7100LC (Hummingbird) rev 6
cpu0: PCX-L, PA-RISC 1.1c, lev 1, cat A, 60 MHz clk
cpu0: shadows, 32K/32K D/I caches, 64 shared TLB, 8 shared BTLB
cpu0: PCX-L (CMOS-26B) floating point, rev 1
mem0 at mainbus0 hpa 0xfffbf000 path 9: viper rev 0, ctrl 40400102<eisa_prf> size 32MB
"GIO Graphics" at mainbus0 (type 0xa, sv 0x85) hpa 0xf8000000 path 1 not configured
lasi0 at mainbus0 hpa 0xf0000000 path 2 irq 28: rev 3.0
gsc0 at lasi0
osiop0 at gsc0 hpa 0xf0106000 path 2/0/1 irq 9 ipl 1: NCR53C710 rev 2, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at osiop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
iee0 at gsc0 hpa 0xf0107000 path 2/0/2 irq 8 ipl 2: Intel 82596CA address 08:00:09:9d:9e:ea
com0 at gsc0 hpa 0xf0105000 path 2/0/4 irq 5 ipl 3: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at gsc0 hpa 0xf0102000 path 2/0/6 irq 7 ipl 4
harmony0 at gsc0 hpa 0xf0104000 path 2/0/8 irq 13 ipl 5: rev 18
audio0 at harmony0: full duplex
"floppy controller" at gsc0 (type 0xa, sv 0x83) hpa 0xf010a000 path 2/0/10 not configured
gsckbc0 at gsc0 hpa 0xf0108000 path 2/0/11 irq 26 ipl 6: keyboard
pckbd0 at gsckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
gsckbc1 at gsc0 hpa 0xf0108100 path 2/0/12: mouse
pms0 at gsckbc1 (aux slot)
wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0
biomask 00000182 netmask 00000186 ttymask 000003de
timecounter: Timecounter "clockinterrupt" frequency 100 Hz quality 0
timecounter: Timecounter "itimer" frequency 60000000 Hz quality 100
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 6 lun 0: <IBM, DDRS-34560W, S97B> disk fixed
sd0: 4357 MB, 8387 cyl, 5 head, 212 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8925000 sectors
sd0: sync (100.00ns offset 8), 8-bit (10.000MB/s) transfers
boot device: iee0
root on iee0
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: 192.168.2.2
nfs_boot: my_addr=192.168.2.4
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
root on 192.168.2.2:/export/hppa/gecko/root
root file system type: nfs
WARNING: preposterous TOD clock time
WARNING: using filesystem time
WARNING: CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

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