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Date:      Thu, 03 Jan 2008 20:22:21 -0900
From:      Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>
To:        amilcar padilla <pada0008@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: sun e250 installation woes.
Message-ID:  <477DC28D.1020406@alaska.net>
In-Reply-To: <E4B82FC2-CBF5-46E5-A623-D65A1B52260F@gmail.com>
References:  <E4B82FC2-CBF5-46E5-A623-D65A1B52260F@gmail.com>

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amilcar padilla wrote, on 1/3/2008 6:37 PM:
> Hello, I am new to the mailing list.  

Hello!

> I am sorry if this is an old
> subject but I'm having issues installing freebsd sparc64 on a sun
> enterprise 250 server.  For some reason when I type "boot cdrom" at the
> ok prompt, the system hangs loading the kernel.

Are you using a an attached keyboard and monitor?  If so, the video
card might not be supported.  Try disconnecting the keyboard and
monitor entirely and get a serial console working instead:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/term.html

Royce

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Royce D. Williams                                - IP Engineering, ACS
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