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valkyriefb as console

Michael — 2012-05-24T00:18:14

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Hello,

a while ago I wrote a driver for the onboard video circuitry found in  
the Performa 6360 ( in OF it shows up as /valkyrie ) - supposedly it  
isn't properly supported by OF but as it turns out it is. Kind of.
Just setting output-device to /valkyrie gives me a funny looking but  
working console, but for some reason any attempt on loading ofwboot  
fails with 'CLAIM failed'. With output-device set to /bandit/ 
3Dfx,Voodoo3 it boots just fine. The bits & pieces needed to run the  
system console on valkyriefb should be in place, if I just could get  
it to load anything ( genfb can't work since OF still doesn't give us  
a framebuffer address and it would need glue code to attach to  
mainbus ).
So, any ides what could cause this and how to get around it? Sure,  
valkyrie is unaccelerated but as a simple console it's doing alright  
and people might want to use the PCI slot for something else, like  
fast ethernet or a USB2 card.

have fun
Michael

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Re: boot from network, use local filesystem

Pablo Cabrera — 2012-03-24T19:24:29

Thanks mouse!

I've just had to edit fstab and then use the -a option. Works great!

On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 21:51:55 -0400 (EDT)
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Re: boot from network, use local filesystem

Mouse — 2012-03-19T01:51:55

I don't remember enough about your particular case to say whether it is
for you, but, in general, yes, this is possible.  You may need to boot
with the option to prompt for root device (-a in my experience; I don't
recall whether it's -a on macppc or not) - or build a kernel with a
custom "root on" clause in its config - or use an autoconfigred-as-root
RAID (which need not actually provide any redundancy) to steal root
from where it would default to.

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boot from network, use local filesystem

Pablo Cabrera — 2012-03-19T01:34:02

Hello,
I'm still stuck about booting from hard drive, so I'll try in other way.

Is it posible to load the bootloader and kernel from network, and then
mount a local partition (/dev/wd0a) as root filesystem?

If it is possible, I will need the server to boot. But once it boots, I
won't be depending on the server while the laptop is turned on.

Greetings.

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Re: BootX (linux version) and the install kernel.

Donald Lee — 2012-03-12T16:34:28

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Re: BootX (linux version) and the install kernel.

Pär Moberg — 2012-03-12T11:27:06

I would love to see you (or any body else) to work on it as soon as 
possible, but survival of said programmer is better so I can wait.

On 2012-03-12 02:09, David Riley wrote:

Re: BootX (linux version) and the install kernel.

David Riley — 2012-03-12T01:09:44


That would be interesting.  I boot most of my macppc machines with ofwboot.xcf because I'm not looking to dual-boot, but I'd love to dual-boot my 7300.  Once I'm done my Master's thesis (May-ish), that might be something I could look into.  I've been threatened with death and/or castration by my wife if I don't finish this semester, though, so... priorities.

On the converse side, I'd be interested in hacking EMILE (the Linux-mac68k boot-block bootloader) to boot more than just Linux images as well.  Lots of really neat ROM Toolbox magic going on in that code.  Obviously, this isn't the list for that project. :-)


- Dave

BootX (linux version) and the install kernel.

Pär Moberg — 2012-03-11T16:00:18

Hello,
I would love to install NetBSD on my Power Mac 6500 and use it as at 
development platform for all my old computers and other stuff.

My problem is that I can't boot the installation kernel and I would love 
it if some brave soul could make Bootx boot netbsd. Mainly since it is 
so easy to use compared to ofwboot.xcf, also it makes it possible to 
dual boot easily.

Using 5.1.2 Xorg with Rage128 driver

Frank Wille — 2012-02-28T19:00:35

Hi,

just an information for all those who are trying to run Xorg on a ATI Rage
board with NetBSD-5 (Driver "r128"):

To make it work you have to insert the option
        Option        "UseFBDev" "False"
in the Device section of your xorg.conf. Otherwise the Xorg server will
complain about a missing "fbdevhw" module.

This seems to be fixed for NetBSD-6, but unfortunately it wasn't pulled up
for 5.

Re: gem(4) fails with 5.1.2 kernel

Frank Wille — 2012-02-28T18:08:05


Ok, the 3.1 userland is the problem.
It works when I boot from a 5.1.2 installation CD.

Re: gem(4) fails with 5.1.2 kernel

Frank Wille — 2012-02-29T13:42:11

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:12:05 -0500
Michael <macallan< at >netbsd.org> wrote:


Yes.



Ok. That together with the 3.1 userland might explain the missing
designation for the 800 capability.

But shouldn't ping(8) work, even with 3.1 userland? I did not enable any
capability.


I will try booting from a 5.1.2 installation CD to verify the problem.

Re: gem(4) fails with 5.1.2 kernel

Michael — 2012-02-29T13:12:05

Hello,

On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:09:43 +0100
Frank Wille <frank< at >phoenix.owl.de> wrote:


Is that still the 3.1 userland?
This is -current on my GigE G4, works just fine and so do the 100MBit gems I have in various laptops:
gem0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        capabilities=800<TCP4CSUM_Tx>
        enabled=0
        address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT full-duplex)
        status: active
        inet 192.168.0.19 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255


The capabilities did change at some point, IIRC to reflect some hardware bugs.

have fun
Michael

Re: Booting a modularized NetBSD 6 kernel (ffs.kmod)

Frank Wille — 2012-02-29T10:37:15


AFAIK the new kernel modules are not supported by any PPC platform at
the moment. The GENERIC kernel has still everything included.



There is a known problem with the NetBSD-6 ofwboot. I hope to find some
time to resolve the remaining issues in the following weeks.

Theoretically the new ofwboot should be able to read the Apple Partition Map
and find the kernel in the NetBSD root partition automatically, so
  boot hd:,ofwboot.xcf
should work.

Otherwise you can revert to the NetBSD 5.x ofwboot, until the problems
are fixed.

gem(4) fails with 5.1.2 kernel

Frank Wille — 2012-02-29T10:09:43

Hi,

I would like to update a 3.1_PATCH system to the latest 5.1.2 release.
It is a PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics), 400MHz, 1.2 GB RAM.

For a test I booted with a 5.1.2 GENERIC kernel and configured the gem(4)
interface. It didn't work. I cannot ping any host on my LAN.

ifconfig(8) reports strange capabilities for gem(4). Something like:
        capabilities=800

...without naming the capabilities. In the 3.1 kernel there were some more
capabilities, with their names in brackets.

What happened? Is it a known problem?

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Re: Need help with panic

Matt Thomas — 2012-02-27T07:09:32

On Feb 26, 2012, at 2:56 PM, Martin Husemann wrote:


trap0 means someone jumped to 0.