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Problem installing 4.1/sparc64 on Sun Blade 100

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Date: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 - 5:49 pm

Hello,

i'm trying to install OpenBSD/Sparc64 on a Blade 100, tried various
methods/versions (all described in INSTALL.sparc64), they all fail after
'Trying bsd....' and stall. Where can i have a start point to debug what
happens/doesn't happen ?

I've tried :
- 3.9-release Cdrom (original version from wim)
- 4.1-release cd41.iso taken from mirror/4.1
- 4.1-current cd41.iso taken from snapshots
- knowing cd-install are not really good on blades, i tried netbooting
bsd.rd 4.1-release and -current, using another obsd box as
rarpd/tftpd/rpc.bootparamd/nfsd/mountd server, set like described in
diskless(8). The weird thing is that ofwboot.net is taken from tftpd after
'boot net bsd.rd', ran, i see the first twolines :
OpenBSD 4.1 (obj) #0: -build-date-
    deraadt@sparc64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/GENERIC
then
Trying bsd....
and
stalled-nothing more on the screen.

but i see no mount requests in mountd -d output.
i tried following
https://www-s.acm.uiuc.edu/wiki/comments/OpenBSD+Sparc64#notes documentation
too.

security-mode is set to none in OBP, and firmware version is 4.0.45, i don't
think it needs a firmware upgrade.
Could it be a hardware problem ? How can i get more debug information ?

Thanks for any hints.

Next step will be trying to use a floppy (gee, i have to find a floppy
reader and a disk), or putting the disk in my U10 (which works fine) and try
to do the install on it.

Landry
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Problem installing 4.1/sparc64 on Sun Blade 100, Landry Breuil, (Wed May 30, 5:49 pm)
Re: Problem installing 4.1/sparc64 on Sun Blade 100, Ted Bullock, (Thu May 31, 12:25 am)
Re: Problem installing 4.1/sparc64 on Sun Blade 100, Landry Breuil, (Thu Jun 7, 12:45 pm)
Re: Problem installing 4.1/sparc64 on Sun Blade 100, Landry Breuil, (Thu Jun 7, 3:09 pm)
Re: Problem installing 4.1/sparc64 on Sun Blade 100, Jimmy Mitchener, (Thu Jun 7, 4:28 pm)
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