Subject: 1.4.2 on Ross -- possible?
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Ben Cottrell <benco@stockmaster.com>
List: port-sparc
Date: 08/23/2000 03:15:14
Hi folks,

We're having some problems installing NetBSD on our new Ross sparc-20
clone... we have experience with netbsd on quite a few other platforms,
but sparc's a new one for us.

We're doing a netboot install -- did everything per the docs, and
got a panic similar to (we don't have a serial console, so this is
from memory):
	panic: pmap_bootstrap: no memory?!

I'm thinking maybe incompatibility with Ross? This is (approximately;
again, transcribing from the screen) what the machine says when booting:

hyperSTATION (1 X RT625), Keyboard Present; ROM Rev. 2.25R hyperSPARC,
128 MB memory installed, Serial #6423.; Ethernet [blah blah]

It was originally a two-processor machine, but we took one of the CPUs
out and the "MP" that used to be in the above message went away, so I
don't think it's an issue with that.

Should this work? i.e. is this a supported configuration? Or should we
give up on it?

By the way, which of the distributed kernels would be best for netbooting
our system? Is netbsd.INSTALL the right one?

Thanks!

	~Ben & Doug, newly recruited Sparcsters