Re: Install on Pi3

2021-09-16 Thread MJ
On 17/09/2021 12:44 pm, Jason Mitchell wrote: Sorry for top posting. If the instructions for the Pi4 are any guide you need to get the EFI bootloader for the Pi3 (if such a thing exists). The Generic ARM64 image expects that the boot code will execute /EFI/boot/.EFI. That file finds the Net

Re: Install on Pi3

2021-09-16 Thread Jason Mitchell
Sorry for top posting. If the instructions for the Pi4 are any guide you need to get the EFI bootloader for the Pi3 (if such a thing exists). The Generic ARM64 image expects that the boot code will execute /EFI/boot/.EFI. That file finds the NetBSD partition and loads the kernel from there. The

Re: Install on Pi3

2021-09-16 Thread Michael Cheponis
James, 2 quick suggestions: 1) Use evbarm 32-bittry this http://www.armbsd.org/arm/ or nyftp 2) For day-to-day use, you really want to boot/use USB. I have a 128G USB stick, and no uSD card. I have been burned too many times, even with quality uSD cards. They're OK to boot with, and in fac

RPI3 panic during plcom0 attach (Re: Install on Pi3)

2021-09-16 Thread Rin Okuyama
On 2021/09/17 8:06, Greg Troxel wrote: James Cloos writes: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/ i tried using: https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbarm-aarch64/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz but all i get is a red-yellow-blue-cyan colour mesh on the monito

Re: Install on Pi3

2021-09-16 Thread Greg Troxel
James Cloos writes: > https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/ > > i tried using: > > > https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbarm-aarch64/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz > > but all i get is a red-yellow-blue-cyan colour mesh > on the monitor. > > Does that colour mesh

Install on Pi3

2021-09-16 Thread James Cloos
following: https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/ i tried using: https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/evbarm-aarch64/binary/gzimg/arm64.img.gz but all i get is a red-yellow-blue-cyan colour mesh on the monitor. Does that colour mesh imply a failed boot? (w/out

trying to attach the intel driver to my main GPU device (Intel UHD Graphics 630)

2021-09-16 Thread Mario Marietto
Hello to everyone. I'm a new net-bsd user. I'm learning and trying this OS. The first step is to correctly configure the resolution of my screen. On my PC I have 3 graphic cards : 1) 000:02:0: Intel UHD Graphics 630 (VGA display, revision 0x02) 2) 001:00:0: NVIDIA product 1e04 (VGA display, rev

Re: View an install.img file

2021-09-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 16 Sep 2021, Martin Husemann wrote: Doesn't the image use GPT nowadays? So it will be dkN instead of vnd0a, try dkctl vnd0 listwedges Bingo: # dkctl vnd0 listwedges /dev/rvnd0: 2 wedges: dk0: EFI system, 262144 blocks at 2048, type: msdos dk1: 0895dffe-fe3d-403d-b50a-91ad47f3

Re: View an install.img file

2021-09-16 Thread Martin Husemann
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 06:17:57PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote: > the install image isn't msdos but ffs. So just > $ sudo mount /dev/vnd0a /mnt Doesn't the image use GPT nowadays? So it will be dkN instead of vnd0a, try dkctl vnd0 listwedges (after the vnconfig) to see if there are any. A

Re: View an install.img file

2021-09-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
On Thu, 16 Sep 2021, Manuel Bouyer wrote: Now I run aground: $ sudo mount -t msdos /dev/vnd0a /mnt mount: no match for `vnd0a': No such process I am of course guessing at 'msdos' AND vnd0a! The Guide provides examples for iso images but I don't see any for "install.img". the install image isn

Re: View an install.img file

2021-09-16 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 12:12:18PM -0400, Bob Bernstein wrote: > I have grabbed NetBSD-9.99.88-amd64-install.img.gz from > http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/images/ and gunzipped > it. > > I thought to mount it for viewing before writing it to my USB stick. > > Shouldn't pester

View an install.img file

2021-09-16 Thread Bob Bernstein
I have grabbed NetBSD-9.99.88-amd64-install.img.gz from http://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/latest/images/ and gunzipped it. I thought to mount it for viewing before writing it to my USB stick. Shouldn't pester a busy vnode: $ sudo vnconfig -l vnd0: not in use vnd1: not in use vnd2

Re: Configuring wsfb using xorg.conf

2021-09-16 Thread RVP
On Wed, 15 Sep 2021, Chavdar Ivanov wrote: This is just a VirtualBox guest, booted in BIOS mode. I suspect this won't work anyway, but tried it when I saw the message above. When I boot the same laptop under NetBSD, it loads the fonts just fine. VGA consoles should load fonts <= 8x16, I think