On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:44:17PM +0200, Lars Nooden wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> >Retry with boot -k tftp://..., as suggested by the error message.
> >Also PMON sometimes gets confused, and a power cycle is needed (using the
> >reset button is not enough in all cases).
>
> Thanks. I had misinterpreted the message and put the -k as an
> argument for bsd.rd
>
> Boots bsd.rd fine now. There are a great many 'spurious interrupt
> 4' messages during the installation process. The ext2 boot
> partition seems to still needed for booting. I tried to dig out
> some linux netboot for that but couldn't find anything that supports
> fuloong yet. Ended up using dd to make the ext2 partition.
>
> It boots bsd current just fine now via the ext2 partition.
>
> /Lars
The sprurious interrupts will be solved if you update to current.
The lasy days I spent on working at the install procedure. The code I
am about to commit is able to create a small ext2 partition or use an
existing ext2 one to install the bootloader on. The kernel the wil be
read from ffs.
-Otto
