Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 10:45:46 +0200 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Ultra 1: upgrade OpenBoot? Message-ID: <20041030104546.69867aef.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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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
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