Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 20:27:11 +0200 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> Cc: "freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Where are the Sparc64 Installation Boot Floppies? (was - Re: Installation on SUN U10 Continued) Message-ID: <20050626202711.H80563@newtrinity.zeist.de> In-Reply-To: <1119802121.10694.123.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>; from bsd@bathnetworks.com on Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:08:43PM %2B0000 References: <1119526083.7606.11.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> <1119549678.29881.237027609@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20050623182244.GA48910@dragon.NUXI.org> <200506231437.51814.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1119555190.15584.237034245@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20050623231651.A29615@newtrinity.zeist.de> <1119802121.10694.123.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk>
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On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:08:43PM +0000, Robert Slade wrote: > On Thu, 2005-06-23 at 21:16, Marius Strobl wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 02:33:10PM -0500, Brett D. Estrade wrote: > Snip > > > > Errata notes for 5.4 are in the works and 6.0 and probably 5.5 should > > work with the most common graphics chips, especially the onboard ones > > (see the creator(4) and machfb(4) man pages in -current). 6.1 probably > > will have some additional drivers for Sun graphics add-on cards. > > > > hrs, how is the errata comming along? > > > > Marius > > > > Marius, > > I am (still) having trouble with my U10. I managed to install 5.3 > eventually and I have now updated to 6.0-GENERIC. I have done > buildworld, and built and installed a Kernel using the GENERIC config > file as is as this agrees with the errata: > > device sc > device creator > options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV > > However, when I reboot, the console gets as far as: > > getty[437]: open /dev/screen : no such file or directory > getty[438]: open /dev/ttya : no such file or directory > > and then the console freezes - the keyboard does not work and the only > message is on tty0 when I su to root after a remote SSH logon. > Looks like you missed to update /etc/ttys (i.e. didn't run mergemaster(8)). > The U10 has a PS2 combined keyboard and mouse. dmesg.boot shows: > On an U10 this would be a RS232 one.
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