Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 installation woes
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: kelly felkins <kellyfelkins2003@yahoo.com>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 01/20/2005 12:52:06
Yes. I have 2.0 running on my 780. Prior to that I had 1.6.2 running.

Works great.

-Kelly

--- Jurrie Lulofs <jurrie@sackheads.org> wrote:

> > > Yes. Find the patch in the archives in this message;
> > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hpcmips/2004/12/30/0003.html
> > >
> > > You will need to most likely rebuild a new release with this
> patch
> > > added, (rebuilding the 2.0 branch (netbsd-2) worked for me).
> >
> > I committed this patch, and I requested pullup-2-0.
> > Please wait.
> 
> OK.... I'll wait.
> 
> The only question I have is if I'll need to build the kernels (both 
> sysinst and GENERIC flavors) myself or if these will be made
> available 
> somewhere.  I don't have a cross-compilation host set-up, so if I
> need to 
> set this up it'd be nice to know before hand.
> 
> Just for grins I attempted to install 1.6.2 on my MobilePro 780. 
> While 
> things were looking promising for a while (newfs ran w/out problems) 
> things eventually came to an end with a "Panic: TLB out of universe"
> in 
> gzip while installing base.tgz from an msdos partition on a CF card
> in the 
> PCMCIA slot.
> 
> It makes me wonder if anyone has NetBSD running successfully on a
> 780.  
> And if so, how?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> jurrie
> 
>