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Date:      Fri, 8 Nov 2002 21:40:36 +0100
From:      Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>
To:        Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Successfull boot on Enterprise 4500
Message-ID:  <20021108204036.GD316@crow.dom2ip.de>
In-Reply-To: <20021108201139.GW59222@nathan.ruhr.de>
References:  <20021108201139.GW59222@nathan.ruhr.de>

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On Fri, 2002/11/08 at 21:11:39 +0100, Udo Erdelhoff wrote:
> Hi,
> back in June, I tried to boot an Enterprise 4500 server from the
> June snapshot and got nothing but a panic.  I was able to boot it
> with the 20021031 snapshot

Cool!

> but that was as far as I got because the
> SCSI controllers are not supported (see logfile).  Too bad, the box
> had an 48 Gig RAID5 attached and would have been one hell of a
> package builder.  Especially as all four CPUs had been launched.
> Is there any SBUS SCSI card for a E4500 that is supported by FreeBSD?

I believe that mjacob got SBus isp cards to work.

> (the auto default of having just 39 Megs of swap on 17G disk is a
> The box is currently running its first buildworld.
> little small) 

That is because the hw.phsmem sysctl, on which the swap size
calculation is based, was not available on sparc64 until
recently. sysinstall would ingnore the error and use stack junk
instead.

Thanks for testing!

	- Thomas

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