Am Samstag, 08. März 2003 um 16:38:14 Uhr (-0500) schrieb Jimi Malcolm:
> I'm trying to set up a 256 MB CF card for NetBSD on a MobilePro 780
> using SuSE 8.1, but am running into brick walls.  The version of SuSE
> I'm running (LiveEval directly off a CD-R) doesn't support FFS.

The Linux kernel doesn't support FFS at all.

> Trying to boot from pbsdboot on a 5M msdos partition, I don't know how
> to get it to recognize the kernel on another partition.

1:/netbsd, if the other partition is formatted as FFS.

But for the installation system, I suggest creating a larger msdos
partition (7 MB so that it holds both the installation kernel and
pbsdboot.exe).

> 
> Does NetBSD even recognize ext2?

Yes, if you tell it to mount a partition as ext2.

> When I put the generic kernel on the msdos partition, it boots the
> kernel fine by simply specifying "/netbsd", but then it bails because
> it seems as though it cannot mount the root file system.  

Then you haven't used the installation kernel (which boots into the
installation routine), but the standard kernel.


-F

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