From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 20:29:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6282116A4CE for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 20:29:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1841943D3F for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 20:29:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) i61KSV2n025128 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:28:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id i61KSVrW025127 for freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org; Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:28:31 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 16:28:31 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040701202831.GA24386@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20040630184237.GA18402@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040630184237.GA18402@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: Snapshot - still working on it... X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 20:29:24 -0000 On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 02:42:37PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > Third attempt is running now, hopefully third time is a charm. :-) Apparently not... It's a bit hard to dance fandango on the keyboard for sparc64 so we'll need to wait for the fix to a problem with the installation procedure. I'm a bit fuzzy on the whole thing but I know the person who should know about it does know about it. It's something along the lines of the random number generation stuff insisting on some input from the keyboard to unblock it when it can't find a suitable source of random stuff elsewhere on the system. At least on i386 with a console it tells you about this on a vty and you can switch to that vty and press some keys on your keyboard to unblock it. You can't do that on sparc64 through a serial console... I'll watch for the fix to be committed and will give it another try then. -- Ken Smith - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |