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Date:      Tue, 16 Aug 2011 07:03:49 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@acm.org>
To:        Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: problem installing 8.2 on Sun Blade 1000
Message-ID:  <20110815210349.GB59127@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4E4542C0.6010905@gmail.com>
References:  <4E4542C0.6010905@gmail.com>

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On 2011-Aug-12 17:12:00 +0200, Riccardo Veraldi <riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com> wrote:
>I have a Sun Blade 1000.
>I tried to install FreeBSD 8.2 from CDROM and installation goes straight.
>Installation exits and I got back to     {0} OK prompt

If you have serial access, it might simplify debugging if you use
the serial port (with logging) and post exact errors and the steps
leading up to them.

>is there a way to fix this ?
>
>The installation goes fine but the system won't boot

I haven't needed to try this on sparc but at least on i386, you can go
into sysinstall "expert mode" and rewrite the bootblocks at the disk
partition step without needing to repeat the complete installation -
"expert mode" enables a "commit now" button.

In order to rule out hardware issues, did the Sun Blade 1000 work
before you tried to install FreeBSD?  Have you tried running the
diagnostics (this will need a serial console)?

-- 
Peter Jeremy

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