Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:23:47 +0000 From: Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> To: Adrian Urquhart <adrian@urquhart-consultancy.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: trouble installing to sun blade 1500 Message-ID: <20091201162347.GA11859@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912011610500.36708@gateway.network.local> References: <20091201154904.GA11679@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912011610500.36708@gateway.network.local>
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On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 04:13:20PM +0000, Adrian Urquhart wrote: > On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I'm new to sun, but have some experiece installing fbsd to > > i386, alpha and ia64. > > > > I've sun blade 1500: http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/sunblade1500/ > > > > I just burned a 8.0 release cd, and tried to boot from it. > > I've a keyboard, mouse and screen attached. > > I get to OK prompt, type "boot cdrom", but the process > > stops after a few seconds with: > > > > jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0088000. > > > > Then nothing, and the keyboard is not responsive. > > I have to force cold reset. On restart the process > > repeats. > > Hi > > I know on some Sun kit this can mean that the boot process is now > carrying on via a serial port. ok, I'll try to check this out. In the meantime I tried 7.2 cd with very similar result - I'm stuck with jumping to kernel entry at 0xc0078000 > > Also, there seem to be no reset button on the desktop. > > Is there a keyboard key or combination to force a reset? > > > > Not sure what you mean by "reset button" but STOP-A is the usual key > combination to get you to the OpenBOOT prom. yes, this was what I'm after. STOP/A doesn't seem to have any effect on my box. Do you mean hit "A" while "STOP" is pressed? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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