On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 09:17:49AM -0400, D'Arcy Cain wrote: > On 06/21/17 07:13, Jukka Marin wrote: > >I was able to install NetBSD 8 on the Qotom box I have been playing with, > >but when it boots it doesn't find root device (wd0) and when I hit a key > >on the USB keyboard, kernel panics.. ;-( The install kernel was working > >ok, though. I'll experiment more. > > I too installed from USB recently and had similar problems. Here is the > first thing to do assuming that you are using the entire disk for NetBSD. > Once you boot up the stick, go to the utility menu and enter the shell. Do > this: > > $ dd if=/dev/zero of=/rc0d > > You may only need to clear the first megabyte but I tried a few smaller > amounts and then finally did the above. The next install worked.
I reinstalled, but changed the partition sizes this time and everything works now. > This is probably a good idea on any install if there is an existing system > on the drive. > > We do need to figure out why the install image doesn't deal with this in the > first place. Maybe there could be an option for clearing the beginning of the disk (and it could be automatic when doing a fresh install and using the whole disk). BTW, urndis doesn't seem to work with an u-blox LTE modem (L210). I keep getting errors like urndis0: usb error on tx: IOERROR urndis0: usb error on tx: TIMEOUT The AT command interface works at /dev/ttyU0, however. -jm
