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
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