Re: Planning for NetBSD 5.0

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On May 5, 2008, at 13:32, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> > > Or could this be caused by fragile hardware?
> >
> > That sounds plausible.
>
> Okay, after overhauling the machine, now 4.0 is successfully
> installed via mesh CD-ROM and 4.0 GENERIC seems to work fine.
> Copying whole sources from NFS via rtk(4) to wd0 by tar(1) seems
> working, but the same command with the same hardware configuration
> still causes lockup on -current kernel.

Hmm, that works fine on the powerbook using the built-in tlp. Maybe I  
can find a cardbus rtk or some other fast ethernet card somewhere.

> BTW, as noted in PR port-macppc/38016, installboot against /dev/rwd0a
> fails since we have switched to using MI bounds_check_with_label(),
> but sysinst still tries it. Maybe we should fix installboot(8) to use
> DIOCWLABEL ioctl as i386, or fix sysinst to use wd0c for workaround.


Fixing installboot sounds like the proper fix to me.

have fun
Michael


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