It does look like as significant cleanup to the sparc code has
	been done, some of the sun4 drivers have suffered, though I
	understand pk has recently made various fixes to some sun4 code.

	If someone has a sun4 and is willing to help one option would be
	to try the latest bootloader, and if that does not work, try going
	forward from 1.3 until they find where it fails - that would
	involve using cvs to try compiling the tree at various dates, but
	could help to provide the information needed to work out why its
	broken).

                David/absolute
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On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote:

> For all intents and purposes the Sun4 arch is broke at this point. I've
> been arguing with my 4/110 for quite some time now with little
> progress..
>
> -Gerald
>
> Eric Wort wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> >    I rescued a 330 from campus surplus(the original hard drive had
> > failed).  Anyway, I was able to install SunOS 4 from CD on it without a
> > problem, but I cannot get NetBSD 1.4.2 or the latest 1.5 ALPHA_2 to boot.
> > NetBSD 1.5 dies at boot time with this error:
> >
> > >b sr(,,3)
> > Boot: sr(0,30,3)
> > >>NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.9
> > >>(root@flambard, Fri Oct 20 02:01:20 MEST 2000)
> > Booting netbsd
> >
> > Memory alignment error with PC 0x003D01E0.   Instruction "0xC6222004".
> > >
> >
> > NetBSD 1.4.2, OTH, dies with this error:
> >
> > >b sr(,,3)
> > Boot: sr(0,30,3)
> > dvma_mapin
> > >
> >
> > I realize that the install instructions say to switch over to the OpenBoot
> > prompt, but this machine does not seem to have it. Its ROM Rev. 3.0.3.
> >
> > Reading through the archives, I noticed that there are problems on the
> > Sun4 architecture with Boot Loader Rev. 1.9 and that NetBSD 1.4.1 with
> > version 1.8 of the Boot Loader might work, I'll probably try that next.
> > Getting a bit tired of burning CDs though =)
> >
> > Eric Wort
> > System Administrator (Solaris, Linux, Win NT, Win 95/98, and Mac)
> > BioAccoustics Research Lab @ UIUC
>