Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2003 14:59:21 -0500 From: John <strgout@unixjunkie.com> To: Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: my poor e450 ;) Message-ID: <20030623195921.GA69353@mail.unixjunkie.com> In-Reply-To: <20030621003322.GA5020@crow.dom2ip.de> References: <20030620042259.GA60831@mail.unixjunkie.com> <20030621003322.GA5020@crow.dom2ip.de>
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Well i forgot that i started a wipe of the drive before i left on friday. :/ Guess what, it works now (reinstalled with 5.1-R again). I think when i upgraded to current i got a bad boot loader. The thing I don't understand is why installing 5.1 didn't kill the old loader. I would guess the installer didn't newfs the partitions. I'm sure that when i reinstalled 5.1-R (over 5.1-Beta) i deleted and recreated the slices, and that the newfs flag was set to Y. But i did notice on the last install that the newfs only take a second or two to run now (UFS2ism?) Well anyways this is how i wiped the drive (from openbsd btw) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd2c bs=512 only took 20 hours. Thanks for everything! On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 02:33:22AM +0200, Thomas Moestl wrote: > On Thu, 2003/06/19 at 23:22:59 -0500, John wrote: > > Just wondering if you can give me a hand. My E450 has not booted FreeBSD > > sinse i upgrade to current and installed your patch. This started the day > > you posted the patch btw. > > http://docs.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=52665+0+archive/2003/freebsd-sparc64/20030601.freebsd-sparc64 > > > > Not to say your patch hosed my e450, who knows what happened. I've posted a lot > > of info to the sparc64 mailing list. If you get a sec, could you check it out > > and tell me if you can think of anything to check? > > The problem seems to already be with the loader (so the patch must be > innocent :). Does pressing Stop-A (or sending a break if you are using > a serial console) bring you back to the firmware prompt? If so, can > you please use the 'ctrace' command at the loader prompt, and send me > the output? I'll also need your loader binary in that case to examine > it. > > - Thomas > > -- > Thomas Moestl <t.moestl@tu-bs.de> http://www.tu-bs.de/~y0015675/ > <tmm@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tmm/ > PGP fingerprint: 1C97 A604 2BD0 E492 51D0 9C0F 1FE6 4F1D 419C 776C
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