Re: issue with September 29 snapshots

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Hugo Villeneuve:
> While updating to the latest September 29 snapshot on my 712/100,
> I run into 2 problems:
> 
> 1. bsd.rd failed to load:
> 
> >> OpenBSD/hppa BOOT 0.8
> boot> boot bsd.rd
> booting dk0a:bsd.rd: 1839660+2654208+376832 [52+91056+74840/
> 
> and then cursor froze after "/" and nothing happens.
> 
> 2. I though maybe my boot loader was too old so updated my lif boot
> blocks with the new supplied xxboot.

have you verified md5 on it?

> But that boot loader autoboot bsd immediatly. Annoying. So I reverted
> back to 3.3 xxboot (the one inside base33.tg).

you should say you want isl then...

> Beside that I didn't get any scsi reset error so I was happily
> surprised.
> 
> 
> I'm also kind of wondering if there's something in hardware that
> stop the built-in display from having at least the bold attribute
> (and maybe reverse video (black on white)).
> 
> <selfplug>
> Also, I got arround to take pictures of my 712/100:
> http://EINTR.net/systems/hp/hp712-100/index.html
> </selfplug>
> 
> 
> Thanks all for a working BSD on hppa.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Hugo Villeneuve <[email protected]>
> http://EINTR.net/ 
> 


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