Boot netbsd 2.0 on RiscPC
Peter Teichmann <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:08:38 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.acorn32 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi, I have a RiscPC, and I want to install NetBSD on it, and now I have a problem... Well, actually I even managed to install it. But my problem is, that it is very hard to boot a kernel. Maybe one out of 30 tries actually works. I tried lot of different things: * boot the kernel by just clicking on the kernel icon an let !btnetbsd do the rest * manually execute boot32, in many variants, including from the supervisor prompt by pressing * while starting the computer, from a !Zap taskwindow, ... * switching the cache off/just the instruction cache/... * removing one SIMM module But it seems to have no influence. The result is the same. For the install kernel, it usually says: panic: initarm: Failed to align the kernel page directory But for the RPC_WSCONS kernel it usually just hangs the computer without giving saying anything. But, under rare circumstances, it manages to boot the kernel properly. But I am not able to find a correlation between the things I tried out. But if it booted, then it runs without problems. What can be wrong? What could I do so that I can reliable boot NetBSD? The machine configuration is: Acorn RiscPC 600 Strongarm rev.K 64MB RAM (2 SIMMs) 2MB VRAM RISC OS 4.02 Thank you very much for your help! Peter Teichmann