Issues netbooting 7043

Good call. I had been using console, but had not thought
about needing to 
use the other boot. And the graphics card is one I took out
of a 240 43p.

Thanks!

-Ober


On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:

> Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:56:17 +0900
> From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsuiceres.dti.ne.jp>
> To: oberlinbsd.org
> Cc: port-prepNetBSD.org, tsutsuiceres.dti.ne.jp
> Subject: Re: Issues netbooting 7043
> 
> oberlinbsd.org wrote:
>
>> Unfortunately I am unable to get my 7043 140 to
boot the kernel.
>> It downloads the image from tftpd fine, but just
hangs (as seen on
>> console, and display).
>> There appears to be some nfs activity afterwards,
but the system never
>> becomes responsive to anything but ping.
>
> Maybe your graphics board isn't supported by
bootloader or the kernel.
> Currently only some PCI VGA cards (S3, Cirrus, MGA) are
supported.
>
> If your 7043 has unsupported one (like GXT1x0), you
could still try
> serial console by bootimage with boot_com0 loader.
>
> BTW, what image did you try?
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>