NETBSD/evbmps 6.99.15 installed and running on Yeeloong

[s.bou...@free.fr]

Hi,

The claim "Of course, it runs NetBSD" is still valid, as I just observed myself, after a successfull installation of NetBSD.

After various failed attempts to launch the installation of NetBSD, I managed finally to install and run successfully NetBSD on a Yeeloong. This mips port was confirmed already in [1] and [2] and a few guys seemed to have difficulties with a broken installation.

My previous attempts failed with NetBSD-daily ([3]) and [4] and ended up with:

.Finally it worked with [5].
The installation command at the PMON prompt is:

boot -k (wd0,0)/netbsd/netbsd-INSTALL_LOONGSON

This commands fails with the following error message:

pmap_steal_memory [blah]
pmap_steal_memory [blahblah]

as reported in [6].

According to /etc/release, the system (NetBSD 6.99.15/evbmips) has following features:

BUILDID = 201212032150Z
DSTRIBVER = 6.99.15
KERNELARCHDIR = arch/evbmips

At this point, the system is installed on an external usb stick, because there is no free partition left on the internal HD, where gNewSense, Debian, Gentoo, and OpenBSD are already installed.

References:
[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbmips/439 ("Lemote Yeeloong Notebook support")
[2] http://bbs.lemote.com/viewthread.php?tid=71917
[3] http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-6-0/20121123140Z/evbmips-mips64el/installation/
[4] ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-6.0/evbmps-mips64el/installation/
[5] http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201212032150Z/evbmips-mips64el/installation/netbsd-INSTALL_LOONGSON.gz
[6] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.ports.evbmips/432 ("Re: Which kernel for Lemote Yeeloong?"