On Mon, Sep 09, 2002 at 02:21:25PM -0400, Greg Lim wrote:
> Hi all...
> 
> Please help if you can.
> I have an ancient Sparcstation 1 that I cannot install NetBSD on.
> I replaced the 3V lithium cell and gave it a valid address.
> Also, I can successfully install Solaris2.6.
> Here's the deal: I can boot off the floppies successfully. I get the
> prompt asking roughly: installing anything can cause serious data loss,
> blah blah.
> proceed with install? [n] I answer yes, and I get the Cool! Let's get to
> it. (sorry doing this from memory)... Supposedly, I am to be given a
> list of devices that I may install to. My list is empty. It never sees
> devices. For reference, I also tried OpenBSD, which did the exact same
> thing. The only thing I can think of that might be bizarre about this
> machine is that it has OpenBoot 1.0 on it. (yes... sunmon-compat? is set
> to false). Could someone confirm or deny that OpenBoot might be the cause?
> I read somewhere that NetBSD uses functionality from OpenBoot...

Could you see the kernel probe the scsi controllers (esp0 most probably) and
then the SCSI disk ?
Once booted you can have a look at the boot message by exiting from the
install script (^C should do it) and either using dmesg | less, or
less /kern/msgbuf

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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