Re: pegasos II boot over serial console?

Håkan Johansson <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jun 2009 22:13:22 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.ofppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2 Jun 2009, Frank Wille wrote:

> Nothing special to do. Just unplug the keyboard and boot NetBSD. When ofppc
> attaches com, it will determine the serial frequency from OFW and calculates
> the correct speed in bps.
>
> Does it work for you with a keyboard and monitor?

Unfortunately, my machine is running without a graphics card since long. 
I'll have to try with keyboard and monitor at some point.

> Hmm... please boot "ofwboot" instead, which will load the kernel. I remember
> that I had strange problems when booting a kernel directly.

I guess that ofwboot requires a ffs filesystem to load the kernel from? 
Could it be netbooted?

Thanks,
Håkan