Setting up root. ..

Claudio Leiva S wrote:
> Rowdy:
> 
> I have been using 3.99.17 restore cd created by Dennis
Chernoivanov
> without any issue, in fact it works very good on my
Qube and it does
> not  have any problem at the moment to set up the
network, you should
> give it a try!!.
> 
> Now that 3.0.1 is out, have somebody try it on a
Qube??.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> Claudio Leiva
> Las Vegas, Nevada
> USA
> http://cleiva.no-ip.com
> http://cleiva.no-ip.com
/forum
> (Powered By NetBSD for Cobalt)

I was wondering whether 3.0.1 would include any of
Tsutsui-san's
excellent fixes.  I browsed the change log, but couldn't
find any
Cobalt-specific references.

3.0.1 is intended to be a security and critical updates
release, and
many people would argue that the cobalt commits were rather
critical 

Rowdy

I have the 3.0 restore cd installed on my qube, but I am
running a
wonderful current kernel from tsutsui

is there a better version of the kernel out there? and if
there is, so
that everyone doesn't have to compile it, can someone
(tsutsui?) host
it again for us, it fixed my other problems right up.

NetBSD caspar 3.99.21 NetBSD 3.99.21 (NOLOAN) #0: Mon Jul 10
21:54:17
JST 2006  tsutsuimirage:/amd/eclipse/r/cvs/netbsd/src/sys/arch/cobalt/
compile/NOLOAN
cobalt

-Justin

> is there a better version of the kernel out there? and
if there is, so
> that everyone doesn't have to compile it, can someone
(tsutsui?) host
> it again for us, it fixed my other problems right up.


I would be more then happy to host any new restore cd
version, or even 
kernel as I did and continue to do for a long time already.
Just need to 
get the new version as what I have is the original one:

http://openbsdsuppo
rt.org/netbsd/

Daniel

(sorry for a late response)

rowdynetspace.net.au wrote:

> I was wondering whether 3.0.1 would include any of
Tsutsui-san's
> excellent fixes.  I browsed the change log, but
couldn't find any
> Cobalt-specific references.

Well, the changes are too large to create all diffs against
netbsd-3
branch and I don't have enough to test them... (since I
always use current)

> 3.0.1 is intended to be a security and critical updates
release, and
> many people would argue that the cobalt commits were
rather critical 

3.0.x wouldn't have all fixes I committed, but I'll add
"options SOSEND_NO_LOAN" to GENERIC and INSTALL
config files
for workaround against TLB MISS panic, and it could be in
3.0.2.
---
Izumi Tsutsui

cyberono-sendai.com wrote:

> Hmm.. How extensive are the changes?  This might be a
candidate for a
> 3.xrelease instead.  (Assuming that it will come out
decently sooner
> than
> 4.0.0.)

Essential fixes for interrupt issue are:
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2006
/04/21/0042.html
http://mail-index.NetBSD.org/source-changes/2006
/05/31/0019.html

But there are more other fixes (cosmetics, identify models,
evcnt(9) etc.)
that these diffs depend on, so I also wonder which fixes
should be
pulled up. (i.e. rewrite the patch for netbsd-3 or pullup
whole diffs)

Note PCI related fixes has been pulled up to netbsd-3.
(ticket #1359)
---
Izumi Tsutsui

I'm making a new restore CD (netbsd-4, even), following the
NetBSD/cobalt 
Restore CD Howto.  But it seems the official Cobalt ISO has
changed since the 
guide has been written: there's no nfsroot/cobalt directory
to remove & 
replace by NetBSD sets.  Hence no
cobalt/binary/kernel/boot.gz to backup. 
There's no install-core.sh neither.

There's just a usual (Linux) system tree into nfsroot/
instead.  Should I 
remove nfsroot/* and untar NetBSD/cobalt sets in it (and fix
things, namely 
etc/, to act like a yet installed system) ?

Thanks
Pierre-Philipp Braun