Re: miniroot for netbsd/landisk

On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> I tested twice the miniroot on a spare IDE disk.
> Both time, the installation process ended after
partition formatting:
>    Status: Command ended on signal
>    Command: /bin/mkdir -p /etc
...
> The hyperterminal log is available here: http://www.tumfa
tig.net/miniroot.zip

Wow.
I didn't expect this to work on the first try. 

I've tried booting the same image in gxemul and it didn't
work, but even 
when giving it a kernel explicitly it hung during kernel
startup, so I'm 
not sure if gxemul is good for this job.

Anyways: I'm afraid I'm not in a position to debug this, at
least I don't 
really have an idea. Overwriting may be a problem, though,
as this setup 
didn't use a ramdisk, so nuking things may indeed be bad for
programs. 

I guess I'll have to see if I can turn this into a miniroot
with a 
ramdisk-based kernel instead. (Unless someone beats me to
this... Uwe? 


  - Hubert

Next round, towards a kernel with an embedded ramdisk:
http://www.feyrer.de/Misc/landisk-netbsd-INSTALL+ramd
isk.gz

Can you please try this kernel and let me know if it boots
into sysinst, 
or how far it gets? Your hyperterminal log helped a lot!

FWIW I tried booting this kernel in gxemul ("gxemul -E
landisk 
netbsd-INSTALL+ramdisk") but it hung pretty early - not
sure if that's due 
to gxemul, but I'll pretend it does:

 	...
 	wdc0 at obio0 port 0x14000000-0x1400000f irq 10
 	atabus0 at wdc0 channel 0
 	btn0 at obio0 irq 12: USL-5P Button
 	pwrsw0 at obio0 irq 11: Power Switch
 	Kernelized RAIDframe activated
 	md0: internal 5000 KB image area
 	<hang>


  - Hubert