Re: Booting -current on the z50

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Thomas Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
[..]

> I tried your suggestion of putting the -current kernel on the msdos
> partition of the cf card and I got the same hang in the kernel boot
> messages:
>
> [. . .]
> boot device: <unknown>
> root device:
>
> I think maybe the hang results from changes in the kernel, see
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2008/04/10/msg003557.html. also,
> hpcboot seems to be able to find kernels on netbsd / just as well as
> on the msdos partition of the cf card.
>
> More ideas on how to get the boot to continue on a z50 with -current?


If you can pass parameters to the kernel through the bootloader, try
appending "root=wd0" or "root=/dev/wd0"  or "root=wd0a" or
"bootdev=/dev/wd0a", etc. to the arguments, depending on where you installed
NetBSD.  But, I'm just guessing wildly; I've never passed any parameters to
the kernel through the bootloader, I just seem to remember hpcboot having
that option somewhere in its tabs, and this may be the kind of thing they
are discussing in that thread.

Good luck!
Elijah
http://elijahr.blogspot.com/