From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 11 08:48:10 2005 Return-Path: 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 5AC2016A4CE for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:48:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ida.interface-business.de (ida.interface-business.de [193.101.57.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08BAE43D48 for ; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:48:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from j@ida.interface-business.de) Received: by ida.interface-business.de (Postfix, from userid 107) id 50C637A0E; Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:48:08 +0100 (MET) Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:48:08 +0100 From: Joerg Wunsch To: m Message-ID: <20050211084808.GA77390@ida.interface-business.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 5E84 F980 C3CA FD4B B584 1070 F48C A81B 69A8 5873 Organization: interface systems GmbH, Dresden User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installation problem on Sun E450 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:48:10 -0000 As m wrote: > The cdr DOES spin up, then the system totally freezes. Does Stop-A still work? With FreeBSD 5.1 (or so), I never got my U450 install from CD, but the symptoms were different. I've always got a read error of some kind. I eventually gave up, and installed across the network. Network installation isn't too hard with Suns, if I were you, I'd give it a try as well. You need a RARPD to supply an IP address to the Openboot PROM, and later on DHCP since that's what FreeBSD wants to use. Of course, the RARPD machine must also have TFTP enabled, the PROM wants to load the sparc64 boot/loader image under a name that matches the hexadecimal IP address. So for a machine that obtained IP address 192.168.1.2, make a link from boot/loader to C0A80102. DHCP needs to supply the following options for that machine: host foo { hardware ethernet 08:00:20:xx:xx:xx; fixed-address 192.168.1.2; option host-name "foo.your.domain"; always-reply-rfc1048 on; filename "kernel"; option root-path "192.168.1.1:/cdrom"; } -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-systems.de http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/