Re: about Pegasos1 (april fix 2) support

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:03 PM, Frank Wille <[email protected]> wrote:
> nello martuscielli wrote:
>
>> mmh... nothing again.
>> http://oi51.tinypic.com/15frq85.jpg
>
> That's not bad. OF_open() on "/pci@80000000/ide@7,1/cd@0,1:0" worked and
> ofwboot can read blocks from the CD with the OFW read method.
>
> But the error 22 indicates that no valid filesystem was detected. This can
> have several reasons:
>
> 1. Your CD does not contain a sane ISO9660 filesystem.
> 2. OF_read claims to work but just returns trash or doesn't fill the buffer
> at all.
> 3. OF_read reads a different block than requested.
>
> Let's concentrate on point 1 first. Are you sure your CD is ok? Is the
> "netbsd" or "netbsd.gz" file in the root directory, parallel to ofwbootdb?
>

well, before i tried to boot from my hdd (first partition with FAT16 fs).

> I just tried tried the same with a CD and ofwbootdb on my Pegasos2 and FS[1]
> does not return error 22. This is the ISO9660 file system.
>

ok, i've now burned bsd files on a cd with iso9660  and i received the
same output except for:
FS[1]_OPEN - error=2


>
>> Anyway for example i'm able to boot old cruxppc with these commands:
>>
>> [from cd]
>> boot cd /path/to/kernel
>
> So cruxppc avoids possible OFW bugs by booting the kernel directly. It
> doesn't use any OF_open or OF_read calls.
>
> What happens when you write the full path explicitely:
>
>  boot cd ofwbootdb /pci@80000000/ide@7,1/cd@0,1/netbsd
>

there is no change declaring bsd kernel full path.


Nell