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 OpenBSD/pegasos runs on the Pegasos I system.  OpenBSD/pegasos runs on the Pegasos I and Pegasos II systems.
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 <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>History:</strong></font></h3>
   
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 The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when Genesi contacted  The OpenBSD/pegasos port was started early 2003 when
 Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released motherboard.  <a href="http://www.genesi.lu">Genesi</a> contacted
   Dale Rahn to port OpenBSD to their newly released
   <a href="http://www.pegasosppc.com">motherboard</a>.
 After several months of hiatus, the port was revived and eventually  After several months of hiatus, the port was revived and eventually
 made public.  made public.
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 <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>  <h3><font color="#0000e0"><strong>Current status:</strong></font></h3>
   
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 The Pegasos I is the only supported board at the current time; hopefully  The Pegasos I and Pegasos II are supported board.
 the Pegasos II hardware will be available to developers soon and it will  The Pegasos II gigabit networking interface is not supported.
 be supported as well.  <p>
   Machine can be used with vga (AGP or PCI) console or with serial console.
   Serial console can be selected with vga card absent or present with
   firmware settings.
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   <li><strong>CD boot</strong>    <li><strong>CD boot</strong>
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   With the OpenBSD CD inserted in the cdrom drive, the CD can be booted    With the OpenBSD CD inserted in the cdrom drive, the CD can be booted
   at the OpenFirmware prompt, with    at the OpenFirmware prompt, with (on PegII)
 <pre>  <pre>
     boot cd OFWBOOT 3.4/pegasos/bsd.rd
   </pre>
     or (on PegI)
   <pre>
   boot cd:OFWBOOT 3.4/pegasos/bsd.rd    boot cd:OFWBOOT 3.4/pegasos/bsd.rd
 </pre>  </pre>
   Currently only MBR labeled disks can be used by OpenBSD/pegasos for  </ul>
   booting. RDB labeled disk are not yet supported.    Currently MBR labeled disks are used by OpenBSD/pegasos for booting.
     RDB labeled disk is supported but not documented fully yet.
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   Typical booting from the installed harddrive is    Typical booting from the installed harddrive depends on PegI/PegII,
     firmware differences
     On a pegII
 <pre>  <pre>
   boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot    boot hd:3 ofwboot
 </pre>  </pre>
     On a Peg I,
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     boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot
   </pre>
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   To boot an alternate kernel, the kernelname must be specified twice due    To boot an alternate kernel,
   to how use_argv[0]? is handled  
 <pre>  <pre>
     boot hd:3 ofwboot /bsd.alt
   </pre>
     or on Peg I the kernelname must be specified twice due to how use_argv[0]?
     is handled
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   boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot /bsd.alt /bsd.alt    boot /dev/pci/ide/disk@0,0:3,ofwboot /bsd.alt /bsd.alt
 </pre>  </pre>
   The first /bsd.alt argument seems be dropped by the bootloader.    On the Peg I, the first /bsd.alt argument seems be dropped by the bootloader.
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