Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 11:51:05 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: jml <jml@ha.cx> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: E450 installation problems Message-ID: <40CB4289.5070709@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20040612170533.GA12295@static.protection.cx> References: <20040612170533.GA12295@static.protection.cx>
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jml wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install 5.2.1 on an E450 from CDROM (generated from > 5.2.1-RELEASE-sparc64-bootonly.iso). > > Unfortunately, after finishing partitioning I get: > > Unable to find device node for /dev/da0b in /dev! > The creation of filesystems will be aborted. > > I tried jumping to a shell to run mknod but mknod doesn't seem to be > anywhere. > > Did I do something wrong / is this a known issue? Not sure what to say about this, maybe others do. > > Also, the raid controller doesn't appear to be in the dmesg, even as an > unconfigured device (I believe it is handled by the asr driver). > I don't know why it wouldn't show up as an unconfigured device. What does 'pciconf -lv' show? In any case, the asr driver has absolutely no chance of working on sparc64 or any other non-i386 architecture. It is neither 64-bit clean nor endian clean, and it is missing the code needed to work with 64-bit s/g lists. Scott
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