On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Thilo Manske wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 03:15:14AM -0400, Ben Cottrell wrote:
> [...]
> > 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]
> [...]
> AFAIK support for hyperSPARC has been added to the 1.5-tree,
> (see http://www.netbsd.org/Changes/changes-1.5.html#port-sparc )
> so try 1.5_Alpha or better 1.5_Alpha2.
> 

If I remember correctly, the kernels without hypersparc support in them
would boot and when they probed cpu0, they'd reply with "no hypersparc
support yet" or something along those lines and then halt the machine.

I've seen this message before when I had memory simms in the incorrect
order on an SS10.