From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 15 21:49:59 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8281C106566C for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:49:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from riccardo.veraldi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 108AB8FC12 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxe4 with SMTP id 4so4986108fxe.13 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:49:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h7MnMcvAqTdrYSCvNtVTX7mXI4i/jv+xALt0iyoZ7Ww=; b=eScSGUGCJHwNVXANYBFCZYxt4gmZlff0Zxyh9KcODBmooP3TCYiSe9aGL6/b1VPaxH YXSF41JHk3VVSMpGC7xzgXH9nMJ0Gr9Ezcl52jtyQLFRbJ8U3C+M/3Snrp93X0+lvzmX k3foep5h0VlwZhQa/oPzhvsRib9+0kgljLHhs= Received: by 10.223.61.199 with SMTP id u7mr6090195fah.98.1313444960477; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:49:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.16.29.232] ([31.177.41.8]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d1sm5355771fai.28.2011.08.15.14.49.18 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:49:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E499459.9060909@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:49:13 +0200 From: Riccardo Veraldi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110616 Thunderbird/3.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Jeremy References: <4E4542C0.6010905@gmail.com> <20110815210349.GB59127@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20110815210349.GB59127@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problem installing 8.2 on Sun Blade 1000 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: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 21:49:59 -0000 On 8/15/11 11:03 PM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On 2011-Aug-12 17:12:00 +0200, Riccardo Veraldi wrote: >> I have a Sun Blade 1000. >> I tried to install FreeBSD 8.2 from CDROM and installation goes straight. >> Installation exits and I got back to {0} OK prompt > If you have serial access, it might simplify debugging if you use > the serial port (with logging) and post exact errors and the steps > leading up to them. > >> is there a way to fix this ? >> >> The installation goes fine but the system won't boot > I haven't needed to try this on sparc but at least on i386, you can go > into sysinstall "expert mode" and rewrite the bootblocks at the disk > partition step without needing to repeat the complete installation - > "expert mode" enables a "commit now" button. > > In order to rule out hardware issues, did the Sun Blade 1000 work > before you tried to install FreeBSD? Have you tried running the > diagnostics (this will need a serial console)? > yes it was working with Solaris 10 and there were no POST problems, everything is ok with that machine. I will try to manually write the boot blocks. thank you Rick