SS20 up and running with 10.0

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

at the end, my SparcStation 20 is up and running with 10.0.
Partitioning had lots of issues, but at the end "dd" the disklabel, 
reboot and I was able to install
Having two hard disks, I lost only the first one with a repartition, it 
contained only some configuration - all my home data was on the second.

So, for sure I removed cruft! And also tested a "clean install".

However, the system appears to be unstable.
I try to build sudo form pkgsrc..

It hangs during configure...

I attach serial console, retry and see this:


Watchdog Reset
Type  help  for more information
<#0> ok

no message before, nothing! What is going on?

This is a decently equipped SS20 With 2x HyperSparc running headless

[     1.000000] total memory = 383 MB
[     1.000000] avail memory = 370 MB

[     1.000000] mainbus0 (root): SUNW,SPARCstation-20: hostid 724c434b
[     1.000000] cpu0 at mainbus0: mid 8: Ross,RT625 @ 125 MHz, on-chip FPU
[     1.000000] cpu0: 256K byte write-back, 64 bytes/line, sw flush: 
cache enabled
[     1.000000] cpu1 at mainbus0: mid 10: Ross,RT625 @ 125 MHz, on-chip FPU
[     1.000000] cpu1: 256K byte write-back, 64 bytes/line, sw flush: 
cache enabled

with 9.2 it was acceptably stable, although after about 2 days of 
compiling, I had the infamous out of memory issue that forced a 
reboot... but I never dropped into console like this.

Riccardo