From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 6 05:58:51 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47101A4E for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 05:58:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from boland37@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.31]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD7572988 for ; Tue, 6 Aug 2013 05:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from charlemagne.boland.org (37-251-73-96.FTTH.ispfabriek.nl [37.251.73.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr11.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r765wgk4066100 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 6 Aug 2013 07:58:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from boland37@xs4all.nl) Message-ID: <52009092.8000806@xs4all.nl> Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 07:58:42 +0200 From: Michiel Boland User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130705 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marius Strobl Subject: Re: 9.2-RC1 sparc install via network problems References: <51FFE2A8.3040504@xs4all.nl> <20130806015344.GA62529@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <20130806015344.GA62529@alchemy.franken.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: FreeBSD Stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Aug 2013 05:58:51 -0000 On 08/06/2013 03:53, Marius Strobl wrote: > On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 07:36:40PM +0200, Michiel Boland wrote: >> Hi. I have some problems installing 9.2-RC1 on sparc64 via the network >> >> I have a dhcp server, and an NFS server that exports the disc1 ISO. >> >> Relevant portions of dhcpd.conf: >> >> filename "boot/loader"; >> option root-path ":/cdrom"; >> >> The boot/loader was copied from the install image. The tftpboot directory is >> otherwise empty. (So no loader.conf etc.) > > Do you also have 'next-server' in there? I'm buffled how TFTPing > the loader could work without one ... There is a next-server line; it was in another location in the dhcpd.conf, so I did not think to copy that, sorry. [...] > U10 are still supported, why should they have been dropped? :) > In fact, the 9.2 images have been tested on a U10 before they were > published. I also found an ISP 1040 card, which works just fine > here. > So this indeed could be a hardware problem causing a PCI access to > fail, which typically causes very strange backtraces like the > incomplete one above. Ok. I'll take out the pci cards - let's see if I can get it to boot then. > So far, that's expected as you seem to also have copied over the > /etc/fstab from disc1. Right. I thought I could take a shortcut by just mdconfig-ing the install image and mounting and exporting that. Cheers Michiel