Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:44:21 -0500 From: Jesse Kempf <kempf@rpi.edu> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Bootloading Problems on E250 Message-ID: <AE1A3F22-875B-46C3-8E2D-3765123EBBA5@rpi.edu>
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I have a Sun E250 that was decommissioned over the summer (it had
been running Solaris 9) that I want to put back into service running
FreeBSD 6. I've had no end of problems yet.
Firstly, I'd tried booting from a 6-RELEASE CD. That doesn't work.
The next approach I took was to use an old Ultra60 to build the
latest STABLE code onto a hard drive which I can pop into my E250.
Here's what happens when I stick the drive into the E250 and try to
boot from it:
RSC Alert: Host System has Reset
Sun (TM) Enterprise 250 (2 X UltraSPARC-II 400MHz), No Keyboard
OpenBoot 3.28, 1024 MB memory installed, Serial #12853310.
Ethernet address 8:0:20:c4:20:3e, Host ID: 80c4203e.
Rebooting with command: boot /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a
Boot device: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a File and args:
>> FreeBSD/sparc64 boot block
Boot path: /pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a
Boot loader: /boot/loader
Consoles: Open Firmware console
FreeBSD/sparc64 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.0
(root@, Tue Jan 24 05:53:27 EST 2006)
bootpath="/pci@1f,4000/scsi@3/disk@0,0:a"
Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
/boot/kernel/kernel data=0x46d208+0x5bbe8 syms=[0x8+0x626e8+0x8+0x52af4]
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]...
nothing to autoload yet.
jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0048000.
RSC Alert: Host System has Reset
Clearly the E250 is not as "fully supported" as the hardware docs
indicate. Where do I begin trying to fix this problem?
Cheers,
-Jesse Kempf
VLSI Lab Systems Manager
Center for Integrated Electronics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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