Subject: Re: How to install on sparc
To: Mr.nopadon Sae-Han <nopadon@hiss.scb.co.th>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/01/1997 21:24:43
Do you still have a bootable SunOS partition on the machine?
David/abs
... and so am I, maybe its the other way round, I can't seem to ...
On Tue, 2 Dec 1997, Mr.nopadon Sae-Han wrote:
>
> Dear David,
> Long time after you send suggest how to boot NetBSD/sparc
> to me and I don't reply :( Now, I got a free time again :)
> I still can't boot NetBSD/sparc by network but Linux/sparc
> it work fine ( Linux RedHat). never mind
> I decide make minirootfs on swap partition and boot. It will
> success but system panic and return OpenBoot promt ( OK promt )
> After that I try with OpenBSD/sparc and pickup boot floopy
> to test OpenBSD/sparc and not work :( and try again with OpenBSD/sparc
> minirootfs. system panic and show something look like debugger of
> OpenBSD/sparc
>
> panic: alignment fault
> Stopped at _Debugger+0x4: jmpl [%o7 + 0x8], %g0
> ddb>
>
> I don't know how to capture all messages,Sun hardware,
> debugger and manything I just would like to boot and install
> [Net,Open]BSD/sparc :)
> I wonder why I can boot Linux/sparc but not success with
> [Net,Open]BSD/sparc
>