Mohd Hisham bin Mohd Omar wrote: > Hallo, I'm trying to boot g4u 2.4alpha on my Soekris net5501 by pxe. > I've set up tftp, nfs on my Openbsd 4.3 and configured boot and > pxeboot_ia32.bin for com0 at 19200 baud. > netbsd boots fine but panics at the end: > > ... > panic: cnopen: no console device > ... > > g4u 2.3 has even more errors but ultimately the result is the same: > > ... > findroot: netboot interface not found. > boot device: <unknown> > root on md0a dumps on md0b > root file system type: ffs > panic: cnopen: no console device > ... > > Could anyone enlighten me on what this means? > How do I pass parameters to the netbsd kernel to use serial console? > Do I have to recompile g4u? Sigh... > > Ok spent a whole day compiling g4u 2.4 alpha2, the serial port was disabled - duh! On my machine, the compilation finished successfully except failure making the iso image. The floppy images were ok however, so all is fine.
As a side note; the pxeboot_ia32.bin has a long delay -more than a minute- to load, not sure if this normal. And might I suggest making userconf available? Anyway g4u runs fine on Soekris 5501. Great software - thanks! mfG Hisham ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ g4u-help mailing list g4u-help@feyrer.de https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/g4u-help
