Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 04:50:14 -0500 From: "Justin Oechsner" <justino@dctexas.net> To: <freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Bsd on Sun Cobalts. When if ever? Message-ID: <000601c49d64$e9d94fc0$e5990e0c@BOX1>
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If this goes to the wrong team, or person please forward to anyone related here in. Hello, I like many other out there have a Sun system known as a Cobalt. Mines a Cobalt XTR. Its an x86 Platform mines (1ghz PIII dual capable). Currently there are no BSD Platforms which will install on it. You can however install Linux Platforms, such RedHat/Slack/Gen ect ect. after you flash the BIOS with an after marker Flash available from Sourceforge http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobalt-rom . The current problem at had with all of the Cobalt systems is that there is no Standard bios for it, allowing load from a MBR. Even though the ROM data from Sun and from Sourceforge is all open source. I know you at FreeBSD have put a lot of time in to the Sparc versions of BSD. But, is there any chance you could lend a helpful hand to the few of us people with Cobalts that haven't given up on them, and maybe give the people who have a reason to pull them out of the closet? I'm not a asm or C programmer or I'd help. :( But I'd be willing to do anything to help. Sincerely, Justin Oechsner me@hinac.com
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