Minggu, 05 Desember 2004

OpenBSD 3.6 on Soekris Net4801

In June I described a way to install OpenBSD 3.5 on a Soekris Net4801 small form factor system. I followed a similar method today with OpenBSD 3.6, installing from floppy to 2.5 inch HDD on one laptop and then moving the HDD to the Soekris.

I had two problems. The first involved not being able to use dd to write the OpenBSD floppy image to the floppy drive. I used this syntax:



orr:/root# dd if=floppyC36.fs of=/dev/fd0


At one point I got errors from dd. Later I saw these error messages from the kernel:


fdc0: ready for input in output

...repeats...

fdc0: ready for input in output

fdc0: too many errors, not logging any more


I was able to use the same syntax on a FreeBSD 4.10 box to create the boot floppy. I booted with the OpenBSD boot floppy and installed OpenBSD 3.6 on the laptop. When I moved the laptop HDD to the Soekris, I got this error via serial console as OpenBSD tried to boot:


booting hd0a:?1;2c: open hd0a:?1;2c: No such file or directory

failed(2). will try /obsd

boot>


I tried a generic 'boot' command next:


boot> boot

booting hd0a:/obsd: open hd0a:/obsd: No such file or directory

failed(2). will try /bsd.old


No joy. Then I remembered OpenBSD usually sees HDDs as device wd, so I tried this:


boot> boot wd0a:/bsd

booting wd0a:/bsd: 4918204+859636 [52+230528+209187]=0x5ee0fc

entry point at 0x100120



[ using 440140 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]

Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993

The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 1995-2004 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org



OpenBSD 3.6 (GENERIC) #59: Fri Sep 17 12:32:57 MDT 2004

deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

cpu0: Geode(TM) Integrated Processor by National Semi ("Geode by NSC" 586-class)

267 MHz

...edited...

wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0:

wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA, 3102MB, 6354432 sectors

wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2

geodesc0 at pci0 dev 18 function 5 "NS SC1100 X-Bus" rev 0x00: iid 6 revision 3

wdstatus 0

...edited...

dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80

root on wd0a

rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302

Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks.

/dev/rwd0a: file system is clean; not checking

/dev/rwd0e: file system is clean; not checking

/dev/rwd0d: file system is clean; not checking

/dev/rwd0f: file system is clean; not checking

...truncated...


Booting from drive wd0a worked. I pondered having to repeat this process the next time I booted the system. However, after a reboot, I did not have to pass any parameters to the boot loader:


boot>

booting hd0a:/bsd: 4918204+859636 [52+230528+209187]=0x5ee0fc

entry point at 0x100120



[ using 440140 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]

Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993

The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Copyright (c) 1995-2004 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org



OpenBSD 3.6 (GENERIC) #59: Fri Sep 17 12:32:57 MDT 2004

deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC

...truncated...


This second boot shows OpenBSD apparently booting from hd0a, which failed the first time. I don't know why this worked. I didn't have this issue with 3.5. I intend to turn this Soekris system into a firewall. For full dmesg output, see my new entry at NYCBUG.org.

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