View source for Sun Netra t1 compact flash root

= Hardware =
To make this work; you need a CF-->laptop IDE (44pin) adapter, and a short ribbon cable.<br />
I had to trim the side-clips off the IDE cable because of the curious mechanism on the netra.<br />

= Installation =
Boot into OpenBSD install media (I used 4.2, and a miniroot install because it was convenient),<br />
and then realize that it won't work with your CF card(?)--at this point, reboot into the install<br />
media but pass the '-c' flag so that you get into UKC (userconfig).<br />
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Once in UKC, it should eyeball kinda like this:<br />
<pre>
UKC> change wd*
change? y
channel: [-1] (hit enter)
flags: [whatever]: 0xff0
UKC> quit
</pre>
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Now you'll be ready to install.  After the installation finishes, you need to pass '-c' again, but<br />
this time it gets waaaaay more stupid.. OpenBoot has no concept of this particular drive, so you need<br />
to boot from a custom devalias:<br />

  boot /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/disk@2:a -c

Follow the same procedure for UKC, and you can later hardcode it in the kernel with config(8).<br />
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