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Follow the same procedure for UKC, and you can later hardcode it in the kernel with config(8).<br /> | Follow the same procedure for UKC, and you can later hardcode it in the kernel with config(8).<br /> | ||
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Revision as of 12:09, 31 October 2007
Hardware
To make this work; you need a CF-->laptop IDE (44pin) adapter, and a short ribbon cable.
I had to trim the side-clips off the IDE cable because of the curious mechanism on the netra.
Installation
Boot into OpenBSD install media (I used 4.2, and a miniroot install because it was convenient),
and then realize that it won't work with your CF card(?)--at this point, reboot into the install
media but pass the '-c' flag so that you get into UKC (userconfig).
Once in UKC, it should eyeball kinda like this:
UKC> change wd* change? y channel: [-1] (hit enter) flags: [whatever]: 0xff0 UKC> quit
Now you'll be ready to install. After the installation finishes, you need to pass '-c' again, but
this time it gets waaaaay more stupid.. OpenBoot has no concept of this particular drive, so you need
to boot from a custom devalias:
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).
Maybe, however, it makes sense to setup a real devalias for this, and not have to type that crap:
nvalias cf /pci@1f,0/pci@1/pci@1/ide@e/disk@2:a