Re: Synology CS 407e: altboot fails to load installer.
Oscar Molin <[email protected]> Wed, 11 May 2011 14:06:29 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sandpoint |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> Do the following: > > - loadb 2000000 > Send a NetBSD kernel with Kermit protocol. > > - loadb 1000000 > Send altboot with Kermit protocol. > > - go 1000000 mem:2000000 > > Altboot will load the kernel from RAM at 0x2000000 and starts it. > It would be interesting to see whether the kernel is able to deal with > your network chip. I can get the install kernel image to boot, I can set up partitions on wd0 och such but I can't install since I can't move the install sets to the new partition. Windows and Linux can't write to UFS partitions so I can't transfer the install sets that way. USB sticks are detected but can't be mounted. Secondary harddrisks can't be mounted so I can't get the install sets that way either. Networking doesn't work either. When I ping it claims that it's sending it but wireshark on my server doesn't see any packets at all. Since the installer doesn't let me install to a harddrive that doesn't contain a ufs partition, I'm forced to repartition to install, losing any existing partition where I might store the install sets. I've even tried a liveboot cd with netbsd to be able to write the the disk with the ufs partition, but I can't mount it because the superblock is claimed to be broken. If I create a new ufs partition on my computer, and then put that harddrive in the synology as wd0, I can't mount that either for some reason. Even if I got the installer to work, I still don't have networking so there isn't much of a point, unless I wan't to run a NAS with only one harddrive and networking over serial port.