From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 5 18:46:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1497037B400 for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:46:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3FDA43E3B for ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBFB52A7D6; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:46:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun AXi boot success In-Reply-To: <20020904143637.F96461@ida.interface-business.de> Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:46:20 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020906014620.BBFB52A7D6@canning.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Joerg Wunsch wrote: > [I'm currently not yet subscribed to this list, so please keep me > Cc'ed.] > > Just out of curiosity, i downloaded Jake's ISO image, and gave it a > try on a basically already retired Sun AXi based workstation here. > It worked! > > The Sun AXi is an OEM mainboard once produced by SME, with the idea in > mind that PC resellers could package this into a PC/ATX form factor > case, and ship reasonably cheap UltraSPARC-powered machines. FWIW, panther.freebsd.org is one of these. The motherboard in that machine has got a panther logo and name on it, which is where the name comes from. SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi 300MHz), No Keyboard OpenBoot 3.10.4 SME, 512 MB memory installed, Serial #8934868. Ethernet address 8:0:20:88:55:d4, Host ID: 808855d4. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message