Re: kernel upgrade on cobalt cacheraq2
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 04:14:35PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> Does anyone know how to install a new kernel on a cobalt cacheraq2
> machine? I can't find any trace of a bootloader or firmware config
> in which I can configure the kernel to boot.
In theory, one should be able to boot an arbitrarily named kernel by
issuing the command
bfd /<kernel_name>
from the firmware prompt. In practice, this does not seem to work on some
machines and seems to be dependant on the firmware version. Mine only boots
/boot/vmlinux.gz from a local harddisk, regardless of which name I give on
the command line. You could try NFS-booting via
bfd /vmlinux.gz root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/nfsroot
Depending on the machine type and firmware version the default image name
seems to be different (vmlinux.gz, vmlinux_RAQ.gz or vmlinux_raq-2800.gz).
The NetBSD/cobalt-FAQ (http://www.de.netbsd.org/Ports/cobalt/faq.html) has
some useful information about bootstrapping such a machine. I still wonder
why the cobalt developers implemented netbooting via NFS instead of using
tftp.
HTH,
Karsten
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