2005-Jul-01

Trying to get sysinst started via a PXE boot on i386. I tried setting up dhcpd and tftpd for boot-big.fs but received:

NBP is too big to fit in free base memory

I don't know if that means that boot-big.fs is too large or is wrong format or another issue.

I made the PXE boot the pxeboot_ia32.bin file. And I have a NFS mount setup and DHCP gives that information. And it boots my netbsd (which is the gunzipped netbsd-INSTALL.gz). And now I have sysinst!

I want tail to follow multiple files (like FreeBSD and Linux systems' tail can do). I made FreeBSD's tail build and it worked, but has various changes from NetBSD so I didn't fix NetBSD's version.

I migrated an old Linux 2.2.14 box to NetBSD 2.0.2. It only saw one network card. The second card was on some expansion card:

pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
Intel 82426EX PCI-to-ISA Bridge (PCIB) (miscellaneous prehistoric, revision 0x02
) at pci0 dev 5 function 0 not configured

I had been using the hardware for almost seven years with Linux 2.0 and 2.2 kernels.

I was told on current-users a couple days later: In netbsd-GENERIC, ne0 at isa is supposed to have

I/O port  0x280 and IRQ 9 and ne1 at isa I/O port 0x300 and irq 10.

Either change the configuration of your card, or rebuild your kernel with

ne0     at isa? port 0x240 irq 3.

It is most easy to boot to userconf (boot -c) and change it from there (change ne0) until you find time to rebuild the kernel.

(I ended up using another faulty hardware before I saw this message.)