From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 1 06:34:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org 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 7098716A4DD for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 06:34:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joshua.pincus@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BFD343D7B for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 06:34:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joshua.pincus@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n15so603526nfc for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:34:01 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=mnsyL3yGDXRbVPA0XM9c9y85PCK66b88WbU/0vG9PMGXE/3SbPg/hpWLmDofcQyLtfG3u/bL4qv1+WP0Js61TYBYn49WQoOJ9rZspbraPdReDOqCmMfwTwscMe6ARUR6XumrQBZKvkK4LA3BFH1PECGBwAbLBPbcNYO6sDKvcgA= Received: by 10.49.90.4 with SMTP id s4mr2524742nfl; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.49.49.16 with HTTP; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:34:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 23:34:01 -0700 From: "Joshua Pincus" To: "K Chapman" In-Reply-To: <20060901045553.53338.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060901045553.53338.qmail@web51006.mail.yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting 6.1 Sparc64 onto a Netra X1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:34:09 -0000 Yes. It does. JP -- On 8/31/06, K Chapman wrote: > Joshua Pincus wrote: > Hi, > > I had similar problems on a Sun Fire V210. The problem is that your > cdrom device alias is wrong, hence OBP can't open the device. > > On the Sun Fire V210, I figured out which bus the CD-ROM was connected to > through trial and error using a SCSI disk that I would plug into > different bus slots and > try to boot. > > Eventually, I figured out the right bus and created a device alias for > cdrom: > > devalias cdrom /pci@1c,600000/scsi@2,1/disk@6,0:f > > (This is a printout of the entry from my nvramrc.) > > You don't need the devalias to boot the system. You just need the > complete path, like the one following the "cdrom" term as above. > Remember, the CD-ROM is nothing more > than a read-only hard drive. In this case, I was able to boot by > sticking the CD-ROM at > SCSI device location 6 and booting from the same :f partition as you'd > expect. > > Coincidentally, I took the hard drive with FreeBSD on it and removed > it from the V210. > I placed it in my own Netra X1 and have been running FreeBSD ever since! > > does the probe-scsi-all (probe-ide for come models) obp command not work on > netras? > > > ________________________________ > How low will we go? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. > >