On 2006/10/13 16:50, Jeff Quast wrote: > On 10/13/06, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >installing OpenBSD/armish on an n2100 I had to manually fdisk > > INSTALL.armish in the fdisk section says "Write some good explaination > here...", so maybe this is known -- but nobody has written a good > section for this.
didn't spot that this time round - that'll teach me for reading it a few days ago and only skimming it while actually installing! it was suggested off-list that recent disk emulation changes may (or may not) have been involved; fdisk creates a partition of the size that would be appropriate for the c*h*s geometry shown by fdisk, disklabel and atactl so it might be something different though. > >(12V 5A made by Seasonic) draws approx 15W (39VA) at idle, > >18W (43VA) compiling. (and the soldering's pretty easy). > > This machine looks really fun though! Thanks for the power stats, too! > > >obio0 at mainbus0 > >com0 at obio0 addr 0xfe800000 intr 28: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo > >com0: console > > I don't mind soldering -- but soldering what? Is this for com0? yes, you need to attach a .1" 2x5-pin header (minus one pin) to the space conveniently located on the drive backplane away from anything that's too easy to damage. I bought a strip with enough to do several boxes, if someone wants one or two headers somewhere I can post to cheaply (.uk/europe) then mail me offlist. if you have multiple boxes to build, you can just move the backplane around if you only need one with a console. you need the serial console to install the OpenBSD boot loader onto flash, or to netboot, but not to actually run it (though it helps). I moved j3 to j4 as well (irq for serial port, info on http://www.debonaras.org/wiki/Info/ThecusN2100 internals page) the fan's not the quietest but not too worrying. runs ok with 512MB RAM borrowed from my main desktop machine, I don't have any larger stick to try it with (the RAM controller in the 80219 is meant to support 1GB of DDR ECC RAM, but I don't know what this board supports). much nicer for port-building than a zaurus :-) thanks to all involved with porting to this arch...(and well, everyone who spends time working on OpenBSD)
