I know what you mean! Its really frustrating when the hangs are so 
sporadic!! I'm taking a break for a while. I've become really proficient 
with resetting my MP790 and loading up sysinst!! Not something I was looking 
at becoming! :P


"Adam Dunnakey" <freshadam@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
news:BAY21-F32B9F45DD95987F9CC9032AC770@phx.gbl...
I have just given up trying to install it on my MobilePro 790, I think 
unless you're a NETBSD genius, its too full of problems to ever get going. 
It has to be the hardest installation ever. I was really looking forward to 
getting it working.






Adam
----Original Message Follows---- 
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
To: Snappy! <direct2system@yahoo.com>
CC: port-hpcmips@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: Success with MP790 but need help to restart
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:11:19 -0700
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:58:35 -0700, Snappy! <direct2system@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I've found that there are a few problems which will cause a panic, which 
> > I should probably open a pr for. But when I soft reset back to WinCE, 
> > then boot NetBSD again, it just does an fsck and I'm fine (this is for 
> > my USB attached drives, I haven't bought a large enough CF card yet).
>
> somehow it either need fsck or something. And it hangs on fsck.
> Otherwise, if its clean, I cannot  mount the msdos fat partn that is no 
> the same CF card. Any idea?
One of those ways to cause a panic is to try to mount the msdos
partition on the CF card that has the boot kernel for me. Don't know
why. I might try to do some extra debugging to see what function it's
dying in, but I think most of the time I can't even use the debugger,
and it won't save the crash either which isn't too cool.
It just seems that some people have mysterious problems and others
don't, which is weird. I don't know how else to characterize it. Some
people have hangs and crashes on machiens that other people don't, and
they are using the same machine.
Hey, these are cheapie PDAs, what can we expect?
Have you tried unpacking the binary sets onto your disk from another
machine, setting it up manually and then trying to boot it? I sort of
go through this procedure on my Mobilepro 880 install page:
http://acruhl.freeshell.org/mobilepro880_netbsd.txt
Andy