On Jul 2, 2014, at 6:21 AM, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 10:45 PM, William Orr <will%worrbase.com@localhost> > wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I’ve *almost* successfully installed NetBSD on my IBM 7248. My system is a >> little special though - the SCSI drive that it had was bad, so I instead >> installed on a CF Card that’s plugged into the IDE controller. The >> installation of NetBSD went beautifully, however I can’t boot my system. >> >> The SMS sees the CF card as a bootable device, and when booting to it, the >> serial console hangs and the system never comes up. There’s no real activity >> happening on the CF card. >> >> I then tried creating a netbootable image with the hope of netbooting into >> my installed system. I booted up the installer again, and dropped to a >> shell. I chrooted into my system and did /usr/mdec/mkbootimage -m prep -b >> /usr/mdec/boot_com0 -k /netbsd boot.fs and tried netbooting again. The >> system grabbed it via tftp, but it hung afterwards. Again, there were no >> reads on the CF card. >> >> It’s worth noting that the CF card is 8GB, and SMS only sees it as roughly >> 3.7 GBs. >> >> Here’s the partition table: >> >> # fdisk /dev/wd0 >> Disk: /dev/wd0c >> NetBSD disklabel disk geometry: >> cylinders: 15538, heads: 16, sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder) >> total sectors: 15662304 >> >> BIOS disk geometry: >> cylinders: 975, heads: 255, sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder) >> total sectors: 15662304 >> >> Partitions aligned to 16065 sector boundaries, offset 63 >> >> Partition table: >> 0: Linux/MINIX (sharing disk with DRDOS) or Personal RISC boot (sysid 65) >> start 63, size 9800 (5 MB, Cyls 0-0/156/35), Active >> PBR is not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00) >> 1: NetBSD (sysid 169) >> start 9863, size 15652441 (7643 MB, Cyls 0/156/36-974/237/63) >> PBR is not bootable: All bytes are identical (0x00) >> 2: <UNUSED> >> 3: <UNUSED> >> First active partition: 0 >> >> >> And the disklabel: >> >> # /dev/wd0c: >> type: unknown >> disk: TS8GCF133 >> label: >> flags: >> bytes/sector: 512 >> sectors/track: 63 >> tracks/cylinder: 16 >> sectors/cylinder: 1008 >> cylinders: 15538 >> total sectors: 15662304 >> rpm: 3600 >> interleave: 1 >> trackskew: 0 >> cylinderskew: 0 >> headswitch: 0 # microseconds >> track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds >> drivedata: 0 >> >> 8 partitions: >> # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg/sgs] >> a: 15127056 9863 4.2BSD 2048 16384 0 # (Cyl. 9*- >> 15016*) >> b: 263088 15136919 swap # (Cyl. 15016*- >> 15277*) >> c: 15662304 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - >> 15537) >> e: 9800 63 boot # (Cyl. 0*- >> 9*) >> >> Any help would be very much appreciated. >> >> Thanks! >> William Orr > > Sorry, I meant to reply to this a few days ago. > > I had one of the consumer IBM PowerPC machines (that would run NT and > MacOS as well as AIX) a while back and I was playing with NetBSD on > it. Maybe it was the same machine as yours. > > The IDE adapter never worked for whatever reason. After a few small > problems I was able to netboot it with an NFS root, and I think it > worked with a SCSI disk. > > It's probably worth booting with an NFS root just to make sure the > rest of the machine works. Have you tried this? > > Andy Hey, So I’ve also tried netbooting the generic_com0.fs, as well as an image that I’ve made with mkbootimage. I also have tried dd’ing an image (made with mkbootimage -s) to the front of a SCSI disk, and trying to boot that. I always get a cursor with no boot loader prompt, any way that I try. William Orr
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