Hi.
Quoting Sarah Caswell <s.casw...@protocol6.com>:
Hi all,
I'm having a frustrating problem getting OpenBSD-current (or
snapshot) to run on my Soekris net5501.
With previous versions of OBSD I was able to use qemu to install to
a compact flashcard directly, by connecting the flashcard to my
laptop and then starting qemu like so:
sudo qemu -hda /dev/sd0i -cdrom install52.iso -boot d (and many
variations of this command mostly pertaining to the /dev/sd0 section)
Yeah this looks wrong, I think you need the raw device (rsd0), or at least
the whole disc, not partition. I installed OpenBSD on Soekris using
Qemu just a week ago and it worked fine. Although I prepared the USB stick
outside of OpenBSD. I have 2G flash drive myself:
# df -hi
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/wd0a 1.9G 509M 1.3G 28% 23502 236336 9% /
I'm basically following the process described here:
http://blog.spoofed.org/2007/12/openbsd-on-soekris-cheaters-guide.html
In the past (~ OpenBSD 4.x) that was a piece of cake and my Soekris
boxen worked right away but now with the 5.x releases I've tried the
install aborts with a Kernel panic just before base52.tgz is fully
downloaded or fetched from ISO.
The panic message says that inodes are in use already.
However that makes no sense to me since the panic occurs during
package download AND I always used new fresh compact flash cards.
The install program extracts the sets on-the-fly.
This sounds more like a disk problem than anything related to Soekris.
Check your disks after formatting by escaping to shell with "!" or
directly with "!dh -i".
Am I missing something obvious? I thought I wasn't a newbie, but
this is making me rethink that notion.
Any thoughts or insights would be welcome.
:-)
Sarah
P.S.: I know there are other ways to get OpenBSD running on a
Soekris but I've always liked the utter simplicity of the qemu-based
install.
