Re: Which kernel for Lemote Yeeloong?

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:38:55PM -0600, John D. Baker wrote:
> I have a Lemote Yeeloong 8101-B and have been following efforts to
> support the offerings from Lemote.  The system currently dual-boots
> gNewSense and OpenBSD 5.0-current from disk.
> 
> I built a recent release using "-m evbmips64el" since that seemed to
> be equivalent to the OpenBSD architecture.
> 
> My usual practice for exploring new platforms or new software on familiar
> platforms is to netboot and operate diskless/NFS-root.
> 
> I populated a root directory on my server using the kern-LOONGSON.tgz
> kernel set, hardlinking it to my tftpboot directory.
> 
> On the Yeeloong, I dropped into PMON, set the address and booted
> the kernel via tftp.
> 
> The LOONGSON kernel complained about a corrupted environment, that it
> couldn't determine the platform and that it was unsupported hardware.

How did you boot it ? I'm seen this on occasions (it seems that
pmon is overwriting part of its memory on occasion, or fail
to restore it); but using "boot -k" instead of "boot" usually works
around the problem. A power cycle can also help.

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