OpenBSD on the Clevo D470K notebook
as followup to an idea/question I posted a few days ago... yes, obsd will
hapily use a swap partition outside of the obsd partition of the disk... so it
will share say an existing Linux swap partition (to save disk space). :-)
sanity check: am I correct in understanding from
http://www.openbsd.org/amd64.html that amd64 "ural" (usb versions of Ralink
RT2500) support has been added in -current but that "ral" (pci versions) is
still non-existent? -TIA
I think so, and if so, fuck, that sucks! :-(
It seems like there is support (albeit not quite working) via dmesg
output, but that amd64 webpage seems to indicate otherwise.
dmesg shows (with both 3.7 release kernel and the latest 3.8-beta
snapshot kernel)...
ral0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0 "Ralink RT2560" rev 0x01pci_intr_map: no
mapping for pin A (line=00)
: could not map interrupt
so, it seems clear that there is some support for it (seemingly
contrary to that webpage), but perhaps not finished.
BTW, if anyone remembers my mentioning that the i386 floppy37.fs (which should
work on an amd64 system as well) panics with a memory fault on an amd64 Clevo
D470K notebook, I thought I'd follow up with a workaround I found to avoid
that. :-)
At the boot prompt, boot into the UKC with "boot fd0a:/bsd -c" and the
at the UKC prompt, disable apm with "disable apm", then exit the UKC and the
system should boot up without panicing so that you can go ahead and install as
usual. :-)
Evidently, they don't get along as far as APM is concerned.
Not that anyone else here is likely to be trying to run i386 obsd on an amd64
Clevo D470K notebook, but as long as I have been reporting issues for the
collective consiousness, here is another gotcha. Better grab a kernel from
snapshots for it (and don't forget to disable apm still if u want it to boot
at all) or your system will spend %80+ of it's time servicing interrupts
(which sucks ass).
<_humppa_> amonk why not u send or make a mini-HOWTO for help people to
install OpenBSD on that Clevo Model
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