From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 3 09:51:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 595961065693 for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:51:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from dirj.bris.ac.uk (dirj.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 125ED8FC0C for ; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from seis.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.10.93]) by dirj.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NG8LY-0002hL-Qg; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:51:43 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk ([137.222.187.241]) by seis.bris.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1NG8LY-0006ok-3y; Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:51:36 +0000 Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id nB39pZDa021039; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:51:35 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nB39pZm1021029; Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:51:35 GMT (envelope-from mexas@bristol.ac.uk) X-Authentication-Warning: mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk: mexas set sender to mexas@bristol.ac.uk using -f Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:51:35 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht To: Marius Strobl Message-ID: <20091203095134.GB9913@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20091201154904.GA11679@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091201165752.GA12095@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091201215130.GA64974@alchemy.franken.de> <20091202124137.GA20168@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202125915.GA20276@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091202192134.GA6562@alchemy.franken.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Spam-Score: -1.5 X-Spam-Level: - Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 09:51:45 -0000 On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 08:21:34PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote: > > > > using a serial console)? Can you boot to single user? > > > > > > a multi-user boot dmesg: > > > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/dmesg-blade1500-8.0 > > > > > > a single user boot went ok, but some disk problems: > > > http://seis.bris.ac.uk/~mexas/dmesg-blade1500-8.0-single-user > > > > just to add on that. After fixing disk with fsck, boot into single > > user mode is fine, and no further disk problems reported. > > But multi-user mode still panics, just as before. > > > > Hrm, the only noticeable difference between your Blade 1500 > and mine is that on yours the generic vgapci(4) attaches to > the otherwise unsupported framebuffer. I gave such a setup > a try but that didn't trigger a panic (this actually wasn't > likely to). Could you please build and install a debugging > kernel in single user mode (a `mount -a` should re-mount / > read-write), i.e. a kernel with the following options: > makeoptions DEBUG=-g > options KDB > options DDB > If that kernel panics you should end up in the debugger > prompt. Please issue a `bt` there and provide its output. will try Also, I can't seem to be able to bring up the network interface in single user mode. Is it supported? If I do "ifconfig bge0 up", bge0 shows as UP, but ip address is not assigned. Probably means /etc/rc.conf is not read? Finally, should I try 7.2 as well/instead? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423