Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:08:49 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@ida.interface-business.de> To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: 5.2.1 mini-ISO fails to boot on U450 Message-ID: <20040415120849.B4638@ida.interface-business.de>
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Hiya, I've got that old U450 system sitting in a corner here. Well, it's got only 256 MB of RAM anymore, but with 4 CPUs (296 MHz) and a dozen disks, I thought it might be an interesting textbox for FreeBSD/sparc64. Unfortunately, I cannot get the mini-ISO CD to boot. In general, there's only little output at all on the serial console, the most I could get was: Fatal SCSI error at script address 8 Illegal instruction Drive not ready When connecting a keyboard and VGA monitor, I see a few more lines from the loader (why don't I see them on the serial console?), but then again the same kind of fatal SCSI error. Is there any chance to avoid that error? Alternatevily, does someone have a checklist for a Sun boot/install server? Last time I tried creating one on a non-Solaris box, I only vaguely remember there were a number of things to remember (besides the obvious ones like setting up RARPD and such). Is rpc.bootparamd required to netboot a FreeBSD machine? -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/
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