Am Tue den 19 Mar 2002 um 07:12:56AM +1100 schrieb Erik de Castro Lopo: <cut> > > 4) Grabbed the 2.4.18 kernel sources and the linux MIPS patches from > > http://linux-mips.sourceforge.net/ > > 5) Applied the patches and fixed a few compile problems (looks like the > Qube2 support has lapsed a little). > > 6) Saved the old kernel image /boot/vmlinux.gz and copied the new one > into place and rebooted. > > Anyway thats where I'm up to :-). The reboot failed and I now need to pull > the harddrive out and hook it up to my i386 machine again to move the old > kernel back into place and try to figure out what went wrong. > > Since the reboot failed I have also built myself a console cable to hook > up to the serial port of the Qube. > Yes that's what one has to do. I suppose you are refering to the hint given in the NetBSD Cobalt FAQ:
http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/cobalt/faq.html#otherkernel In the Cobalt firmware you can say: bfd /boot/mykernel.gz and the box will boot the file /boot/mykernel.gz Thank you and Karsten for your replies, andre
