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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 05, 2005, 12:38:16 am »
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Does your CF wlan only prevent OpenBSD from booting?  Or is it usuable
after boot?  Did you try running kismet on it?

Everything was quite stable with wi0 inserted and active. I haven't tried kismet yet, but will report back when I have.

Thanks again for the help. You should start a donations page

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OpenBSD / Openbsd 3.8 Current First Impressions
« on: September 04, 2005, 11:45:10 pm »
I started my OpenBSD install on Saturday afternoon. Following the INSTALL.zaurus document was smooth sailing. I ran into my first problem when I answered 'yes' to the question "Do you want to use the entire disk for OpenBSD?" I changed my mind and aborted the install, not being give the choice to go backwards.

Not realizing I could just re-launch the installer via ./install. I ended up rebooting, hoping to get back into the Sharp environment. No such luck - I was stuck at the boot> prompt cycling endlessly. Finally after a few hours of crying, and posting a desperate plea for help on oesf, I decided to try the manual zboot/insmod process in the INSTALL.zaurus which worked beautifully. I went all the way through an install finally (after messing up and having to do the rescue a few times) but then when I halted and rebooted... stuch at boot> again!!! Argh indeed.

Thanks to barryg, I tried resetting (b+d process) with the wifi CF card out. It worked! You guys are the best.

So, I now have a full OpenBSD install running and I've started installing software from ports.

Some comments based on my initial impression:

PROS:
* The ports system is far superior to hunting down ipk files
* sshd by default is very helpful for doing postinstall stuff
* fvwm is quick and functional
* man pages are indeed useful
* /usr/games is a lot of fun

CONS:
* Battery life seems to be much less than my former c860 w/ cacko (3 hrs vs 5+ hrs)
  - this can probably be improved once I figure out some power saving settings
* If the system is reset (as if battery + power was removed for a minute), and I boot with a CF card inserted, I can't boot.
  - this has been blamed on the linux boot process. don't know if it's fixable
* No cross compiler? I'm not looking forward to building large packages
* Looks like I need to learn how to mirror packages and set them up to build overnight the way barryg does (thanks for the info)
* xterm doesn't have flexible font scaling (go from 6pt micro 170 columns to 16 point lcd 79 columns with a few button presses)
* Bluetooth stack probably not available any time in the immediate future

PLANS:
* build some useful applications, especially fluxbox and eterm
* dual boot cacko or pdaXrom from 1gb SD card

Thanks again.

-Daniel

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 04, 2005, 01:09:35 am »
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a. Can you post your fdisk, disklabel and dmesg?

I decided to use simple partitions for the first time around. Next time I'll try something fancier. Here's my info - although I am no longer having install problems.

1. dmesg

OpenBSD 3.8 (GENERIC) #148: Fri Sep  2 14:12:27 MDT 2005
    deraadt@zaurus.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/zaurus/compile/GENERIC
real mem  = 67108864 (65536K)
avail mem = 53383168 (52132K)
using 844 buffers containing 3457024 bytes (3376K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: PXA27x rev 4 (XScale core)
cpu0: DC enabled IC enabled WB enabled LABT branch prediction enabled
cpu0: 32KB(32b/l,32way) I-cache, 32KB(32b/l,32way) wr-back-lock D-cache
pxaip0 at mainbus0: CPU clock = 416.002 MHz
pxaintc0 at pxaip0 addr 0x40d00000: Interrupt Controller
pxagpio0 at pxaip0 addr 0x40e00000: GPIO Controller
pxadmac0 at pxaip0 addr 0x40000000 intr 25: DMA Controller
saost0 at pxaip0 addr 0x40a00000
saost0: SA-11x0 OS Timer
com0 at pxaip0 addr 0x40100000 intr 22: pxa2x0, 32 byte fifo
com1 at pxaip0 addr 0x40200000 intr 21: pxa2x0, 32 byte fifo
com2 at pxaip0 addr 0x40700000 intr 20: pxa2x0, 32 byte fifo (SIR)
pxaudc0 at pxaip0: USB Device Controller
ohci0 at pxaip0, version 1.0
usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0 at usb0
uhub0: PXA27x OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
lcd_pxaip0 at pxaip0
wsdisplay0 at lcd_pxaip0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation)
wsdisplay0: screen 1 added (std, vt100 emulation)
zkbd0 at pxaip0
wskbd0 at zkbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
scoop0 at pxaip0: PCMCIA/GPIO controller
scoop1 at pxaip0: PCMCIA/GPIO controller
pxapcic0 at pxaip0: 2 slots
pcmcia0 at pxapcic0
pcmcia1 at pxapcic0
zssp0 at pxaip0
apm0 at pxaip0
zts0 at pxaip0
wsmouse0 at zts0 mux 0
zaudio0 at pxaip0: I2C, I2S, WM8750 Audio
audio0 at zaudio0
clock: hz=100 stathz=64
wdc0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "HITACHI, microdrive" port 0x0/16: irq 138
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <HMS360404D5CF00>
wd0: 32-sector PIO, LBA, 3906MB, 7999488 sectors
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings
boot_file: 'bsd'
boot device: wd0.
rootdev=0x1000 rrootdev=0x1000 rawdev=0x1002
WARNING: using filesystem date -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
wi0 at pcmcia1 function 0 "The Linksys Group, Inc., Wireless Network CF Card, ISL37300P" port 0x0/64, irq 137
wi0: PRISM2.5 ISL3873 (0x800c), Firmware 1.0.4 (primary), 1.0.3 (station), address 00:06:25:03:e3:8d
wd0a:  aborted command reading fsbn 4322400 of 4322400-4322431 (wd0 bn 4322463; cn 4288 tn 2 sn 33), retrying
wd0: soft error (corrected)

2. fdisk

Disk: wd0       geometry: 7936/16/63 [7999488 Sectors]
Offset: 0       Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending       LBA Info:
 #: id    C   H  S -    C   H  S [       start:      size   ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 0: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 1: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
 2: 00    0   0  0 -    0   0  0 [           0:           0 ] unused      
*3: A6    0   1  1 - 7935  15 63 [          63:     7999425 ] OpenBSD  

3. disklabel

# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 7999425
# /dev/rwd0c:
type: ESDI
disk: ESDI/IDE disk
label: HMS360404D5CF00
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 7936
total sectors: 7999488
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0

16 partitions:
#             size        offset  fstype [fsize bsize  cpg]
  a:       7300000            63  4.2BSD   2048 16384  328 # Cyl     0*-  7242*
  b:        699425       7300063    swap                   # Cyl  7242*-  7935
  c:       7999488             0  unused      0     0      # Cyl     0 -  7935

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 10:39:26 pm »
Well, I managed to finally boot openbsd. Looks like my WCF11 CF card was the problem... I'll be damned.

Thanks barryg.

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 09:28:05 pm »
Thanks barryg, will post my info asap!

P.S. I did have an SD card inserted (on which I had zbsdmod.o and bsd.rd - which I repeatedly need to get back into the installer). I tried removing it as the openbsd installer was starting up, but didn't notice any difference.

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 07:32:26 pm »
Thanks, but that doesn't appear to be my problem. a is most certainly before b. Can you please tell show me your fdisk and disklabel output for your current settings?

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 07:05:58 pm »
I've done the install over and over like a moron. The problem is after I calibrate the screen, halt, reboot, I can't seem to find the boot partition in the boot> prompt.

I've tried every device name I can think of... nothing will boot. bsd, obsd and bsd.old are not found anywhere.

I made sure the OpenBSD partition was bootable/active. I even tried reinit'ing the MBR. The offset for a is 63 bytes. / is on a, /tmp is on b.

What the heck stupid newbie mistake am I making?

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 08:35:35 am »
Good news... I decided on a partitioning scheme (3550mb /, 450mb /tmp) and got my WCF-11 card working (had to turn off WEP). The sets are now downloading (selected them all).

Hopefully the install will now complete (I've restarted it via ./install about 10 times trying different things ) and I can have a nice reward for staying up all night. hehe

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 05:33:20 am »
Issue resolved for now. It took ages but I finally got a macos tiger system to mount my SD card (which i had to format and partition on my zaurus directly in single user mode). I insmod'd the bsdmod.o and copied the bsd.rd to /proc/zboot (got the idea from the install docs). Now I'm back at the (I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? prompt.

Wish me luck!

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 03:11:32 am »
There may be hope... perhaps single user + insmod... will report back.

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OpenBSD / Stuck In Openbsd Install Limbo
« on: September 03, 2005, 02:35:29 am »
* Got the current ipk for 3.8
* Ran install openbsd
* Entered openbsd installer
* Aborted to shell after realizing i wanted to keep some space for linux
* rebooted
* Now stuck at boot prompt. No disk label, nothing boots.

I did the procedure that's supposed to prevent the booting of the linux partition:

mount /dev/mtdblock2 /mnt
cd /mnt/home/etc/rc.d

cat rc.rofilesys | sed -e '/vfat/s/^/#/' > vfat
diff -u rc.rofilesys vfat      # to double check
cp rc.rofilesys rc.rofilesys.vfat
cp vfat rc.rofilesys

The diff seemed to show that lines which were already commented out were just re-commented (double ##'s). Anyway, didn't really do anything... just thought I'd mention it.

I can boot into single user mode, but don't know what the heck I can do from there.

Now, do I need to do a NAND restore, or is there hope?

Thanks for listening. I apologize for being a moron!

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OpenBSD / Pure Openbsd
« on: September 02, 2005, 12:31:03 pm »
barryg, thanks - you really have made this forum very useful

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OpenBSD / New Bsd 3.8 Beta Snapshot ?
« on: September 01, 2005, 09:44:51 pm »
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Thanks, that is what I was looking for. I have not tried the CVS thing yet, I need to seup my wireless connection first.

You don't need anything special to look at CVS. You can browse it online:
http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/

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OpenBSD / What Is The State Of Openbsd For Sl-c1000?
« on: September 01, 2005, 01:59:36 am »
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i think i'll hold off for now until a few more people have doen it... my pdaXrom setup is fine for now 

C'mon, be a pioneer. Where's that zaurus hackerdom?

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OpenBSD / New Bsd 3.8 Beta Snapshot ?
« on: August 31, 2005, 02:24:58 pm »
Looks like the OpenBSD "daily changelog" for current hasn't been updated since May, but it should have most of the major changes listed in it. Prepare for a lot of reading.

OpenBSD.org daily changelog:
http://openbsd.org/plus.html


P.S. There's always CVS if you really want the latest info on a particular feature.

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