New tarball available

[Will Barton]

I'm not sure if it's something I'm doing, but it doesn't seem to be.

I have a Quicksilver PowerMac 867, and I can netboot (as per the 
instructions) with no problem... but (and here's where it gets a bit 
hard to explain without sounding like a complete dodo ;) when it gets 
to the 'mountroot>' prompt, I get a "panic: Root mount failed", and it 
drops to the 'db>' prompt, and continues to scroll as though the Enter 
key is stuck until I hit another key (any key), at which point it stops 
scrolling, but I cannot type anything at all.

I'm also disabling syscons, since I don't have a non-ADC display.  
Otherwise, I don't think there is anything special here.

-Will

On Oct 24, 2003, at 8:34 AM, Peter Grehan wrote:

> I've put up a tarball at:
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/ppc-root-102303.tbz2
>
> (STOP PRESS: the loader in the tarball missed out on a vital
> isync patch: please replace with the loader at
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/loader)
>
> The kernel contains a syscons module that uses the 8-bit frame buffer 
> set
> up by OpenFirmware, so it should look very familiar to FreeBSD/i386 
> users.
> It currently relies on having a USB keyboard, so if you have a system 
> that
> uses an ADB keyboard (e.g. early iBooks, B&W G3), then you have to 
> either
> attach a USB keyboard, or disable syscons at the loader prompt to use 
> the
> old ofw console
>
>    OK set hw.syscons.disable=1
>
>  But don't do this unless you really have to. Since USB is enabled in 
> the
> kernel, this doesn't work too well on boxes with USB keyboards, but 
> then,
> syscons is a way better console environment than ofwcons.
>
>  For those who haven't installed before, there's some very terse 
> instructions
> at:
>
>   http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/install.html
>
> Make sure to have a strong sense of adventure and know how to use the
> programmer's switch :-) And for kicks, syscons users should try this
> on the console:
>
>  # sh /usr/share/examples/dialog/radiolist
>
>  ... and verify the first radio button :-) Also, check out VTY 
> switching
> using Alt-F? (aka Option-F?).
>
> later,
>
> Peter.
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