Re: Installing NetBSD 5.0 on MVME-147

--- On Tue, 7/14/09, Steve Woodford <[email protected]> wrote:

> Aha, that might explain it; the kernel probably thinks you
> have an 
> external VMEbus RAM card.
> 
> The NetBSD installation instructions (the part describing
> hardware 
> preparation) provide the fix:
> 
> MVME147 board, at the 147Bug prompt:
> 
> 147Bug> mm fffe0764 ;l
> fffe0764: xxxxxxxx? 0
> fffe0768: xxxxxxxx? 0
> fffe076c: xxxxxxxx? .
> 
> Writing 0 to those locations, as shown, should solve the
> problem.

I did that already. I was hoping it would be that simple, but no luck. :)

I'm pretty sure I zeroed the entire module, actually. When I replaced the battery, I did a block fill from fffe0000 to fffe07ff, setting all locations to zero. This was refrenced in the manual for the MVME147 board, not in the NetBSD docs.

-Ian