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jmitchel | 29 Mar 2012 16:30

Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

Hello,

    Apologies if this shows up twice. I'm having trouble getting the
NetBSD 5.1.2 install kernel to boot on a Jornada 680. The hpcboot
progress bar gets all the way to the end and then the screen goes
black and the Jornada reboots. The list email pasted below suggests
that a new copy of hpcboot.exe would solve my problems. Does anyone
have a copy?

Thanks,

Jason M.

I recall I had some trouble initially that was resolved by getting an
updated hpcboot from someone off the list.

On Tue, 10 Jan 2012, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

    On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 14:37:09 -0800, Devin D wrote:

        /etc/rc.conf is not configured. multiuser boot aborted.
        Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:

        I pressed the enter key and "hpckbd: unknown scan code 0x51 (10, 1)
        then i realized no matter what key I hit i get that same error wiht
        different values at the end.

        Did I do something wrong?

    Which "platform" (model) do you select in hpcboot menu?
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jmitchel | 30 Mar 2012 07:42

Re: Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

Okay, it turns out that the issue was hpcboot settings. In case someone
runs into this here's the problem an the solution.

When launching hpcboot on a Jornada 680 with the install kernel and the
file system set to md, the Jornada would complain "Unable to allocate
memory". If I increased the program memory as high as it would go, the
hpcboot progress bar would get to the far right then the Jornada would
reboot and show the following error:

bootling cold
exception event code 60
TLB Miss/Invalid (store)

The solution is to set the file system to wd (even though there isn't yet
a ffs file system on the flash card.

There is one more issue. The ramdisk doesn't appear to have sysinst. I
just get dropped at a shell prompt. There are utilities on the ramdisk
including "install" and "upgrade" in the root of the file system. But when
run each utility complains "Can't open //install.md" There's nothing in
the mailing list archives with that string. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jason M.

> Hello,
>
>     Apologies if this shows up twice. I'm having trouble getting the
> NetBSD 5.1.2 install kernel to boot on a Jornada 680. The hpcboot
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Valeriy E. Ushakov | 13 Apr 2012 23:24
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Re: Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 01:42:55 -0400, jmitchel <at> bigjar.com wrote:

> There is one more issue. The ramdisk doesn't appear to have sysinst. I
> just get dropped at a shell prompt. There are utilities on the ramdisk
> including "install" and "upgrade" in the root of the file system. But when
> run each utility complains "Can't open //install.md" There's nothing in
> the mailing list archives with that string. Any ideas?

sysinst was never taught how to deal with quirks of hpcsh, since in a
typical setup you want dual-fs CF card with FAT partition that
contains hpcboot and FFS partition that contains the system.  

I guess there's very little motivation to invest any time in that now.
The machines are more than a decade old and are rather underpowered,
so the user base is tiny.

-uwe
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Michael Wileman | 14 Apr 2012 00:29
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Re: Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

> I guess there's very little motivation to invest any time in that now.
> The machines are more than a decade old and are rather underpowered,
> so the user base is tiny.

It's a shame someone doesn't make a machine with the same form factor 
but more modern power.

Mike
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Jason Mitchell | 14 Apr 2012 01:15

Re: Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

The Viliv N5 is close to the same form factor, but unfortunately the 
keyboard is horrible.

Jason M.

On 04/13/2012 06:29 PM, Michael Wileman wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Apr 2012, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:
>
>> I guess there's very little motivation to invest any time in that now.
>> The machines are more than a decade old and are rather underpowered,
>> so the user base is tiny.
>
> It's a shame someone doesn't make a machine with the same form factor 
> but more modern power.
>
> Mike
>
>
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Izumi Tsutsui | 14 Apr 2012 02:49
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Re: Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

> There is one more issue. The ramdisk doesn't appear to have sysinst. I
> just get dropped at a shell prompt. There are utilities on the ramdisk
> including "install" and "upgrade" in the root of the file system. But when
> run each utility complains "Can't open //install.md" There's nothing in
> the mailing list archives with that string. Any ideas?

Try 6.0_BETA.

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Izumi Tsutsui
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jmitchel | 14 Apr 2012 04:48

Re: Installing NetBSD 5.1.2 on a Jornada 680 - new hpcboot.exe needed?

Sysinst pops up just like any other port -- Awesome! I'm running through
the install now. Thanks!

>> There is one more issue. The ramdisk doesn't appear to have sysinst. I
just get dropped at a shell prompt. There are utilities on the ramdisk
including "install" and "upgrade" in the root of the file system. But
when
>> run each utility complains "Can't open //install.md" There's nothing in
the mailing list archives with that string. Any ideas?
>
> Try 6.0_BETA.
>
> ---
> Izumi Tsutsui
>
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