Re: NetBSD hangs while executing /sbin/init in IBM 405 GP eval board.

[Allen Briggs <briggs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 08:51:47PM +0530, mindentropy wrote:
>     I have a IBM 405GP evaluation board and I tried installing NetBSD on it. 
> NetBSD boots the walnut image properly and I am prompted for a boot 
> device(seletected emac0) and root filesystem(selected nfs). After that it
> gives me the correct information of the ip address of the device etc and ip
> and nfs 
> information of the server. After that it gives a warning of no /dev/console. 
> It prompts for a /sbin/init execution. After I return it just hangs there.

I vaguely recall that you might need to limit the NFS read/write size to
1k for some reason.

Have you tried with
options         NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=1024

in your kernel config file?

-allen

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