From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 03:08:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7F316A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 03:08:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8224243D45 for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 03:08:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@ida.interface-business.de) Received: by ida.interface-business.de (Postfix, from userid 107) id 7AD197A48; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:08:49 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:08:49 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040415120849.B4638@ida.interface-business.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Organization: interface systems GmbH, Dresden Subject: 5.2.1 mini-ISO fails to boot on U450 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:08:52 -0000 Hiya, I've got that old U450 system sitting in a corner here. Well, it's got only 256 MB of RAM anymore, but with 4 CPUs (296 MHz) and a dozen disks, I thought it might be an interesting textbox for FreeBSD/sparc64. Unfortunately, I cannot get the mini-ISO CD to boot. In general, there's only little output at all on the serial console, the most I could get was: Fatal SCSI error at script address 8 Illegal instruction Drive not ready When connecting a keyboard and VGA monitor, I see a few more lines from the loader (why don't I see them on the serial console?), but then again the same kind of fatal SCSI error. Is there any chance to avoid that error? Alternatevily, does someone have a checklist for a Sun boot/install server? Last time I tried creating one on a non-Solaris box, I only vaguely remember there were a number of things to remember (besides the obvious ones like setting up RARPD and such). Is rpc.bootparamd required to netboot a FreeBSD machine? -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/