Dear all, I just wanted to give some feedback after I have G4U running now on my PowerEdge 2950 servers. I hope someone will find these notes useful.
1.) At least on my system, sysinst was not built, but is needed later. So this does the trick cd /usr/src/distrib/utils/sysinst TOOLDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/tooldir/ OBJDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/ \ DESTDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/destdir/ \ RELEASEDIR=/usr/src/obj.i386/releasedir make 2.) after finishing the build, the iso image was bootable inside VMware, but not on real hardware ("can't read CD" after primary bootstrap). It turned out that I hit this bug here: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/current-users/2009/10/24/msg010932.html the author stated that the problem vanishes if one updates to at least 5.99.21 (G4U's is build against sources from "20091018" and this is 5.99.20) I updated the sources to -D 20091208 instead of -D 20091018. The G4U patches still apply without any misses. And after a complete rebuild, the new iso image now also boots fine on real hardware. 3.) the kernel still freezes while booting on the PowerEdge servers and after around 10 tries, I found that #TH#options PCIBIOS # PCI BIOS support had to be disabled on this hardware (disabled in GENERIC, but enabled in the G4U Kernel by default). I assume that the RAID controller (Perc 5/i) I use cause the problems, so that maybe very specific to my hardware. I did some more modifications to enable GPT, but this was more or less straight forward. I didn't try to copy single GPT partitions, as I don't need that. I doubt that this would work as these are not mapped to the disklabel and to my knowledge G4U relies on disklabel entries, or am I wrong? Is anybody else interested in getting GPT to work? In this case I would love to co-operate. Best regards, Torsten -- <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> <> <> <> Dr. Torsten Harenberg harenb...@physik.uni-wuppertal.de <> <> Bergische Universitaet <> <> FB C - Physik Tel.: +49 (0)202 439-3521 <> <> Gaussstr. 20 Fax : +49 (0)202 439-2811 <> <> 42097 Wuppertal <> <> <> <><><><><><><>< Of course it runs NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org ><> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help