From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 30 08:45:50 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 E18F616A4CE for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:45:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.broadpark.no (mail.broadpark.no [217.13.4.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7154143D3F for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:45:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no (151.80-202-173.nextgentel.com [80.202.173.151]) by mail.broadpark.no (Postfix) with SMTP id 52AB27323 for ; Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:46:38 +0200 (MEST) Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:45:46 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20041030104546.69867aef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2.1) X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq;m"_0v;~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Ultra 1: upgrade OpenBoot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 08:45:51 -0000 Background: I have several i386 FreeBSD machines, and some years of experience with them. I also have an old Sun Ultra 1E, but not a lot of experience with Sun hardware. I also have no experience at all with SunOS or Solaris. How do I upgrade OpenBoot on a Ultra 1 which have - FreeBSD installed on disk (and nothing else) - a cd rom - no floppy I found this patch: http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/printfriendly.do?assetkey=1-21-104288-09-1 And it describes various methods. I tried theone where the patch is copied to the root partition on the disk. I tried to boot that file (the patch), both from the OBP prompt, and from FreeBSD's boot loader. Neither worked. The documents with the patch also describes tthat you can boot a cd rom (if you have the patch on a bootable cd rom), but I haven't found out how to create such a cd rom. The last one is the network boot method. It seems to be missing detailed info about what things I need to set up on a FreeBSD machine in order for the Ultra 1 to boot the patch over the network. Any help appreciated. -- Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway